The Muse Of History: Ancient Greeks From Enlightenment To Present Oswyn Murray Allen Lane Αγγλικά Βιβλία History General Issues

How The Modern World Has Understood Ancient Greeks And Why They Matter Todaythe Study Of Greek History Been Central To Western Conception Since Renaissance Muse Traces Shifting Patterns This Preoccupation In Last Three Centuries Which Each Generation Reinterpreted Light Their Contemporary Through Times Revolution Conflicting Ideologies Warfare It Aims Offer A New Historiography From Enlightenment Present Acknowledge Continuing Spiritual Importance For European Culture Twentieth Century Under Totalitarian Persecutions Different Historians Many Them Unjustly Forgotten Shows Problematic Nature Anglo-Saxon Tradition Ideas Continent Europe Ambiguities Democracy Impossibility Understanding Past Or Outside Our Common Heritage Ends By Offering Suggestions Future Context Σελίδες: 528 Διαστάσεις: 16 5X16 5Cm