The Children of Athena - Charles Freeman

The Children of Athena

Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC–AD 400

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Buch | Softcover
400 Seiten
2024
Apollo (Verlag)
978-1-80328-196-4 (ISBN)
13,70 inkl. MwSt
A portrait of the continuing intellectual tradition of Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome.
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.

Charles Freeman is a specialist on the ancient world and its legacy. He has worked on archaeological digs on the continents surrounding the Mediterranean and develops study tour programs in Italy, Greece, and Turkey. Freeman is Historical Consultant to the Blue Guides series and the author of numerous books, including the bestseller The Closing of the Western Mind, Holy Bones, Holy Dust and, most recently, The Awakening. He lives in the UK.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 2 x 8pp col
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10 1-80328-196-0 / 1803281960
ISBN-13 978-1-80328-196-4 / 9781803281964
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