Hellenistic History and Culture: 9 - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0520203259 ISBN 13: 9780520203259

Casa editrice: University of California Press, 1996

Riassunto

In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic mosaic. That picture emerges in these essays and eloquently displays the breadth of modern interest in the Hellenistic Age.

A distrust of all ideologies has altered old views of ancient political structures, and feminism has also changed earlier assessments. The current emphasis on multiculturalism has consciously deemphasized the Western, Greco-Roman tradition, and Nubians, Bactrians, and other subject peoples of the time are receiving attention in their own right, not just as recipients of Greco-Roman culture.

History, like Herakleitos' river, never stands still. These essays share a collective sense of discovery and a sparking of new ideas—they are a welcome beginning to the reexploration of a fascinatingly complex age.

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L'autore:

Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor of Classics at the University of Texas, Austin. Novelist and scholar, his recent books include Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C. (California, 1991), Alexander to Actium (California, 1990), and The Laughter of Aphrodite (California, 1993).

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• Editore: University of California Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0520203259
• ISBN 13: 9780520203259
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 312
• Redattore: Green Peter