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The Classical Tradition

Hardcover • 2010 • English

The Classical Tradition

By Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, Salvatore Settis

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About the book

“A vast cabinet of curiosities.”—Stephen Greenblatt “Eclectic rather than exhaustive, less an encyclopedia than a buffet.”—Frederic Raphael, Literary Review How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus’s sirens to an ambulance’s? The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the...Show more

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ISBN

9780674035720

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

The Classical Tradition

Format

Hardcover

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