"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, ...
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"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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New. 2010. First Edition. Hardback. The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. This book features some 500 articles by a range of scholars, that investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science. Editor(s): Grafton, Anthony; Most, Glenn W.; Settis, Salvatore. Series: Harvard University Press Reference Library. Num Pages: 928 pages, 165 color illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; GBA; HBLA; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 266 x 213 x 64. Weight in Grams: 2694......We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 1088 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Illustrations, color. Harvard University Press Reference Library.
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This a book you will read a little at a time, night after night. Made up of many articles from A to Z, you will find reading one article leads to another and you will spend your time going back and forth in the book. One aspect of the book I found revealing was how much the classical world influenced the Islamic world. Some articles can be very technical, particularly the articles about philosophy, so you will need to brush up on your scholarship. Very glad I bought this book.
