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The Birth of Classical Europe - A History from Troy to Augustine (Paperback)
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The Birth of Classical Europe - A History from Troy to Augustine (Paperback)
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List price R601
Loot Price R533
Discovery Miles 5 330
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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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