How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus
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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