Название: The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to AugustineАвтор: Peter Thonemann (Author), Simon Price (Author)
Издательство: Penguin
Год: 2010
Формат: pdf, djvu
Страниц: 558
Размер: 12,66 Мб
Язык: английский
To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a 'classical Europe', using frames of reference created by ancient Mediterranean cultures. As this consistently fresh and surprising new book makes clear, however, this was no less true for the inhabitants of those classical civilizations themselves, whose myths, history, and buildings were an elaborate engagement with an already old and revered past filled with great leaders and writers, emigrations and battles.