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CLASSICAL CIVILIZATION
A HISTORY IN TEN CHAPTERS |
| By: |
Nigel Spivey |
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Paperback |
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£16.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1781855021 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781781855027 |
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| Publisher: |
HEAD OF ZEUS |
| Pub. date: |
3 November, 2016 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
A masterly account of how the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome came into being, by a prize-winning Cambridge classicist whose writing is as accessible as it is scholarly. |
| Synopsis: |
A concise and accessible study of the foundations, development and enduring legacy of the cultures of Greece and Rome, centred on ten locations of seminal importance in the development of Classical civilisation. Starting with Troy, where history, myth and cosmology fuse to form the origins of Classical civilisation, Nigel Spivey explores the contrasting politics of Athens and Sparta, the diffusion of classical ideals across the Mediterranean world, Classical science and philosophy, the eastward export of Greek culture with the conquests of Alexander the Great, the power and spread of the Roman imperium, and the long Byzantine twilight of Antiquity. A secure grasp of the nature of our Greek and Roman heritage is absolutely fundamental to a true understanding of contemporary European society and culture. Nigel Spivey outlines and explains that heritage with supreme passion, rigour and clarity. |
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UK |
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Head of Zeus |
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