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Classical Tradition

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ISBN-10: 0674072278

ISBN-13: 9780674072275

Edition: 2010

Authors: Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, Salvatore Settis

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How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus’ 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 fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science. Arranged alphabetically from Academy to Zoology, the essays—designed and written to serve scholars, students, and the general reader alike—show how the Classical tradition has shaped human endeavors from art to government, mathematics to medicine, drama to urban…    
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Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 5/6/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1088
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.25" long x 2.12" tall
Weight: 5.390
Language: English

Glenn W. Most has taught at the Universities of Yale, Princeton, Michigan, Siena, Innsbruck, and Heidelberg. Since 2001 he has been Professor of Greek Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, since 1996 he has been a visiting Professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago; recently he has also become an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.