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The Children of Athena - Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC–AD 400 (Hardcover)
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The Children of Athena - Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC–AD 400 (Hardcover)
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A compelling and fascinating portrait of the continuing
intellectual tradition of Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of
Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman
Republic; sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek
city-states rebelled against Rome, the general Lucius Cornelius
Sulla destroyed the city of Socrates and Plato, laying waste to the
famous Academy where Aristotle had studied. However, the traditions
of Greek cultural life would continue to flourish during the
centuries of Roman rule that followed, in the lives and work of a
distinguished array of philosophers, doctors, scientists,
geographers, travellers and theologians. Charles Freeman's accounts
of such luminaries as the physician Galen, the geographer Ptolemy
and the philosopher Plotinus are interwoven with contextual
'interludes' that showcase a sequence of unjustly neglected and
richly influential lives. Like the author's The Awakening, The
Children of Athena is a cultural history on an epic scale: the
story of a rich and vibrant tradition of Greek intellectual inquiry
across a period of more than five hundred years, from the second
century BC to the start of the fifth century AD.
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