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The Classical Tradition (Paperback)
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The Classical Tradition (Paperback)
Series: Harvard University Press Reference Library
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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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