The Classical Tradition (Harvard University Press Reference Library)

ISBN 10: 0674072278 / ISBN 13: 9780674072275

Published by Belknap Press: An Imprint of Har, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Classical Tradition (Harvard University Press Reference Library)
• Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Har
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674072278
• ISBN 13: 9780674072275
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

“A vast cabinet of curiosities.”―Stephen Greenblatt

“Eclectic rather than exhaustive, less an encyclopedia than a buffet.”―Frederic Raphael, Literary Review

How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus’s 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 planning, legal theory to popular culture.

At once authoritative and accessible, learned and entertaining, comprehensive and surprising, and accompanied by an extensive selection of illustrations, this guide illuminates the vitality of the Classical tradition that still surrounds us today.

About the Authors

Anthony Grafton is the author of The Footnote, Defenders of the Text, Forgers and Critics, and Inky Fingers, among other books. The Henry Putnam University Professor of History and the Humanities at Princeton University, Emeritus, he writes regularly for the London Review of Books.

Glenn W. Most is Visiting Professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

Salvatore Settis is Professor Emeritus of the History of Classical Art and Archaeology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and a former Director of the Getty Museum.