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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Greeks: Crucible of Civilizationdi Paul Cartledge
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Paul Anthony Cartledge (24 de marzo de 1947 (70 años) es un académico británico especialista en historia antigua.1 De 2008 a 2014 ha sido A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture en la Universidad de Cambridge.2 Anteriormente fue profesor de Historia de Grecia en Cambridge. ( ) This is an introduction to ancient Greek culture and history, written to accompany a TV series in 2000, that I picked up on impulse in my local library. The book is divided into 15 short portraits of prominent (or not really prominent in some cases) Greeks who influenced or were in some way representative of ancient Greek society. It includes a range of obvious examples: Homer, Pericles, Socrates, Aristotle and Alexander, also others much less well known, including one who may be a fictional creation of Plato (who is not included separately from Socrates, but whose influence is felt throughout much of the book). The approach is generally effective in presenting an introduction to its subject, but I think the author bangs on rather excessively about the subordinate role of women in Greek society (which has of course been true historically of women in the great majority of societies over time until recently, and alas still in many societies now). The book does give a reasonable feel for the flow of Greek history, particularly the relations between Athens and the other city states in the 5th and 4th centuries. A reasonable read, though the format and choice of some of the portraits makes for a slightly disjointed feel. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization is an introduction to the world of Homer, Plato, Sappho, and Aristophanes." "The ancient Greek empire laid the foundation for our modern views of science, politics, warfare, philosophy, and art. Yet any examination of our similarities to the Greeks reveals as many differences. Paul Cartledge, Professor of Greek History at Cambridge University, explores our complex relationship to the Greeks by introducing us to fifteen men and women of extraordinary accomplishment: generals such as Epaminondas, statesmen such as Pericles, artists such as Sappho."--Jacket. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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