The Classical Tradition - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674072278 ISBN 13: 9780674072275

Verlag: The Belknap Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

“A vast cabinet of curiosities.”—Stephen Greenblatt

“Eclectic rather than exhaustive, less an encyclopedia than a buffet.”—Frederic Raphael, Literary Review

How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus’s sirens to an ambulance’s? The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science.

Arranged alphabetically from Academy to Zoology, the essays—designed and written to serve scholars, students, and the general reader alike—show how the Classical tradition has shaped human endeavors from art to government, mathematics to medicine, drama to urban planning, legal theory to popular culture.

At once authoritative and accessible, learned and entertaining, comprehensive and surprising, and accompanied by an extensive selection of illustrations, this guide illuminates the vitality of the Classical tradition that still surrounds us today.

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Anthony Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University.

Author's home: Princeton, NJ

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The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The Belknap Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0674072278
• ISBN 13: 9780674072275
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1067
• Herausgeber: Anthony Grafton
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