Beschreibung:
The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought presents an authoritative, coherent and wide-ranging guide to the afterlife of Greco-Roman antiquity in later Western cultures and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of large aspects of Western culture as a whole from a classical perspective.* Features a unique combination of chronological range, cultural scope, coherent argument, and unified analysis* Written in a lively, engaging, and elegant manner* Presents an innovative overview of the afterlife of antiquity* Crosses disciplinary boundaries to make new sense of a rich variety of material, rarely brought together* Fully illustrated with a mix of color and black & white images