The Classical World: The Foundations of the West and the Enduring Legacy of Antiquity by Nigel Spivey
The Classical World: The Foundations of the West and the Enduring Legacy of Antiquity by Nigel Spivey
An authoritative and accessible study of the foundations, development, and enduring legacy of the cultures of Greece and Rome, centered on ten locations of seminal importance in the development of Classical civilization.
Starting with Troy -- where history, myth, and cosmology fuse to form the origins of Classical civilization -- Nigel Spivey explores the contrasting politics of Athens and Sparta, the diffusion of Classical ideals across the Mediterranean world, 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.
PEGASUS BOOKS, HARDCOVER, 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING, 2016.
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