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The Birth of Classical Europe

By Peter Thonemann

The Birth of Classical Europe German history

The Birth of Classical Europe

By Peter Thonemann

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
416
Release Date:
2011-05-26
Publication Date:
2011-05-26
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0140274855
ISBN13:
9780140274851
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
328 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
197 cm
Thickness:
37 cm
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