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The Birth of Classical Europe

- A History from Troy to Augustine
Af: Simon Price, Peter Thonemann Engelsk Paperback

The Birth of Classical Europe

- A History from Troy to Augustine
Af: Simon Price, Peter Thonemann Engelsk Paperback
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''The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing''s great projects'' New Statesman

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. Indeed, much of the reason we know so much about the classical past is the obsessive importance it held for so many generations of Greeks and Romans, who interpreted and reinterpreted their changing casts of heroes and villains. Figures such as Alexander the Great and Augustus Caesar loom large in our imaginations today, but they were themselves fascinated by what had preceded them.

The Birth of Classical Europe is therefore both an authoritative history, and also a fascinating attempt to show how our own changing values and interests have shaped our feelings about an era which is by some measures very remote but by others startlingly close.

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''The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing''s great projects'' New Statesman

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. Indeed, much of the reason we know so much about the classical past is the obsessive importance it held for so many generations of Greeks and Romans, who interpreted and reinterpreted their changing casts of heroes and villains. Figures such as Alexander the Great and Augustus Caesar loom large in our imaginations today, but they were themselves fascinated by what had preceded them.

The Birth of Classical Europe is therefore both an authoritative history, and also a fascinating attempt to show how our own changing values and interests have shaped our feelings about an era which is by some measures very remote but by others startlingly close.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 416
ISBN-13: 9780140274851
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0140274855
Kategori: Oldtidens historie
Udg. Dato: 26 maj 2011
Længde: 25mm
Bredde: 197mm
Højde: 136mm
Forlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato: 26 maj 2011
Forfatter(e): Simon Price, Peter Thonemann
Forfatter(e) Simon Price, Peter Thonemann

Kategori Oldtidens historie

ISBN-13 9780140274851

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 416

Udgave

Længde 25mm

Bredde 197mm

Højde 136mm

Udg. Dato 26 maj 2011

Oplagsdato 26 maj 2011

Forlag Penguin Books Ltd

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