The Shadow of the Parthenon : Studies in Ancient History and Literature / Peter Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Peter, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Ancient.

Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A lively combination of scholarship and unorthodoxy makes these studies in ancient history and literature unusually rewarding. Few of the objects of conventional admiration gain much support from Peter Green (Pericles and the "democracy" of fifth-century Athens are treated to a very cool scrutiny) but he has a warm regard for the real virtues of antiquity and for those who spoke with "an individual voice."The studies cover both history and literature, Greece and Rome. They range from the real nature of Athenian society to poets as diverse as Sappho and Juvenal, and all of them, without laboring any parallels, make the ancient world immediately relevant to our own. (There is, for example, a very perceptive essay on how classical history often becomes a vehicle for the historian's own political beliefs and fantasies of power.) The student of classical history will find plenty in this book to enrich his own studies. The general reader will enjoy the vision of a classical world which differs radically from what he probably expects.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface And Acknowledgments

The Shadow Of The Parthenon

Clio Reviewed: A Survey Of Progress And Reaction In Greek Historiography

Athens And Jerusalem

Myths And Symbols

The Individual Voice Archilochus And Sappho

The First Sicilian Slave War

Juvenal And His Age

Appendix The Date Of Archilochus

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520934719

0520934717

OCLC:

809166944