The Classics (A Brief Insight) (repost)
Mary Beard, John Henderson, "The Classics (A Brief Insight)"
ISBN: 1402775318 | 2012 | EPUB | 192 pages | 15 MB
Mary Beard and John Henderson link a haunting temple on a lonely mountainside to the glory of ancient Greece and the grandeur of Rome, and to classics within modern culture-from Jefferson and Byron to Asterix and Ben-Hur. Rather than focusing on the traditional retelling of the classics, the authors concentrate on one particular artifact–the friezes from the Temple of Apollo at Bassae in Arcadia–as a springboard to explore, define, and debate the relationship between our contemporary world and the ancient one.