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The Children of Athena

- Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC–AD 400
Af: Charles Freeman Engelsk Hardback

The Children of Athena

- Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC–AD 400
Af: Charles Freeman Engelsk Hardback
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The remarkable story of how Greek-speaking writers and thinkers sustained and developed the intellectual legacy of Classical Greece under the rule of Rome.

In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; some sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek city-states rebelled against Rome, the general Lucius Cornelius Sulla destroyed the city of Socrates and Plato, laying waste the famous Academy where Aristotle had studied.

However, the traditions of Greek cultural life would continue to flourish – across the eastern Mediterranean world and beyond – during the centuries of Roman rule that followed, in the lives and work of a distinguished array of philosophers, rhetoricians, historians, doctors, scientists, geographers and theologians.

Charles Freeman''s accounts of such luminaries as the polymathic physician Galen, the soldier-botanist Dioscorides, the Alexandrian geographer and astronomer Ptolemy and the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus are interwoven with ''interludes'' that counterpoint and contextualise a sequence of unjustly neglected and richly influential lives.

This is the story of a vibrant, constantly evolving tradition of intellectual inquiry across a period of more than five hundred years, from the second century BC to the start of the fifth century ad – one that would help shape the intellectual landscape of the Middle Ages and long after. The Children of Athena is a cultural history on an epic scale.

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The remarkable story of how Greek-speaking writers and thinkers sustained and developed the intellectual legacy of Classical Greece under the rule of Rome.

In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; some sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek city-states rebelled against Rome, the general Lucius Cornelius Sulla destroyed the city of Socrates and Plato, laying waste the famous Academy where Aristotle had studied.

However, the traditions of Greek cultural life would continue to flourish – across the eastern Mediterranean world and beyond – during the centuries of Roman rule that followed, in the lives and work of a distinguished array of philosophers, rhetoricians, historians, doctors, scientists, geographers and theologians.

Charles Freeman''s accounts of such luminaries as the polymathic physician Galen, the soldier-botanist Dioscorides, the Alexandrian geographer and astronomer Ptolemy and the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus are interwoven with ''interludes'' that counterpoint and contextualise a sequence of unjustly neglected and richly influential lives.

This is the story of a vibrant, constantly evolving tradition of intellectual inquiry across a period of more than five hundred years, from the second century BC to the start of the fifth century ad – one that would help shape the intellectual landscape of the Middle Ages and long after. The Children of Athena is a cultural history on an epic scale.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 400
ISBN-13: 9781803281957
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1803281952
Kategori: Ancient Greece
Udg. Dato: 9 nov 2023
Længde: 38mm
Bredde: 244mm
Højde: 163mm
Forlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato: 9 nov 2023
Forfatter(e): Charles Freeman
Forfatter(e) Charles Freeman

Kategori Ancient Greece

ISBN-13 9781803281957

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 400

Udgave

Længde 38mm

Bredde 244mm

Højde 163mm

Udg. Dato 9 nov 2023

Oplagsdato 9 nov 2023

Forlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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