Classical Civilization: A History in Ten Chapters
By Nigel Spivey
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
A concise and accessible study of the foundations, development and enduring legacy of the cultures of Greece and Rome, centred on ten locations of seminal importance in the development of Classical civilisation.
Starting with Troy, where history, myth and cosmology fuse to form the origins of Classical civilisation, Nigel Spivey explores the contrasting politics of Athens and Sparta, the diffusion of classical ideals across the Mediterranean world, Classical 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.
A secure grasp of the nature of our Greek and Roman heritage is absolutely fundamental to a true understanding of contemporary European society and culture. Nigel Spivey outlines and explains that heritage with supreme passion, rigour and clarity.
Nigel Spivey
Nigel Spivey is Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at Cambridge. He wrote Songs on Bronze: The Greek Myths Made Real and The Ancient Olympics and presented the television series "How Art Made the World" for the BBC. He lives in Cambridge.
Read more from Nigel Spivey
The Sarpedon Krater: The Life and Afterlife of a Greek Vase Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Classical World: The Foundations of the West and the Enduring Legacy of Antiquity Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Related to Classical Civilization
Related ebooks
Hellas - A Short History of Ancient Greece Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOf Rocks and Water: An Archaeology of Place Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCleopatra: A Sphinx Revisited Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHomer and His Age Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Study Guide for Wallace Stevens's "Of Modern Poetry" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBronze Age Connections: Cultural Contact in Prehistoric Europe Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Political Machine: Assembling Sovereignty in the Bronze Age Caucasus Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe Bowmen Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAncient Legends of Roman History (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTechnological Approach to Lithic Artifacts from Yukon Territory Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThis Distracted Globe: Worldmaking in Early Modern Literature Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Study Guide for Wallace Stevens 's "Anecdote of the Jar" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGreece and Egypt in the Archaic Age Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsExile, Ostracism, and Democracy: The Politics of Expulsion in Ancient Greece Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOn the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy: Men, Their Professions, and Their Beards Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStanding on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excavating Modernity: The Roman Past in Fascist Italy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsArt and Archaeology of Ancient Rome Vol 2: Art and Archaeology of Ancient Rome Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLegend of Sir Lancelot du Lac Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGrave Goods: Objects and Death in Later Prehistoric Britain Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShadows of the Stage Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsArt and Politics: The History of the National Arts Centre Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGhost-haunted land: Contemporary art and post-Troubles Northern Ireland Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFolklore of Northamptonshire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5TRAC 2000: Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Theoretical Archaeology Conference. London 2000 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEuphrates River Valley Settlement: The Carchemish Sector in the Third Millennium BC Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPolitics of Temporalization: Medievalism and Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century South America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Ancient History For You
The Republic by Plato Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Troy: The Greek Myths Reimagined Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mythos Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad of Homer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Complete Papyrus of Ani Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Paul: A Biography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Ancient Guide to Modern Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Holy Bible: From the Ancient Eastern Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Histories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oh My Gods: A Modern Retelling of Greek and Roman Myths Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Visionary: The Mysterious Origins of Human Consciousness (The Definitive Edition of Supernatural) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Egyptian Book of the Dead Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The History of the Peloponnesian War: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hero Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5"America is the True Old World" Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bullies and Saints: An Honest Look at the Good and Evil of Christian History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future---Updated With a New Epilogue Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sex and Erotism in Ancient Egypt Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When God Had a Wife: The Fall and Rise of the Sacred Feminine in the Judeo-Christian Tradition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5History of the Jews Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Secret History of America: Classic Writings on Our Nation's Unknown Past and Inner Purpose Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Greek Mythology Explained: A Deeper Look at Classical Greek Lore and Myth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Classical Civilization
0 ratings0 reviews