Love in the Ancient World - Brossura

Miles, Christopher; Norwich, Lord John Julius

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1841880108 ISBN 13: 9781841880105

Casa editrice: W&N, 1999

Riassunto

Travel back in time in search of long-lost attitudes on love and lust, passion and desire. Beautifully illustrated in full color, this fascinating exploration looks at how ancient civilizations regarded sex and sexuality before hedonism was curtailed by organized religion and relations between the sexes were complicated by a prevailing sense of guilt. Exquisite photographs showcase sculpture, pottery, paintings, and architecture that feature graphic representations of the human form and the art of love. By seeing how love was represented, communicated, commemorated, mythologized, and incorporated into worship from the earliest cave dwellers to the sophisticated Egyptian, Greek, and Roman societies, we can gain new perspectives on history as well as on our lives today. 176 pages (all in color), 9 x 11.

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L'autore:

John Julius Norwich was born in 1929. He was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, at Eton, at the University of Strasbourg and, after a spell of National Service in the Navy, at New College, Oxford, where he took a degree in French and Russian. In 1952 he joined the Foreign Service, where he remained for twelve years, serving at the embassies in Belgrade and Beirut and with the British Delegation to the Disarmament Conference at Geneva. In 1964 he resigned from the service in order to write.

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Love In The Ancient World

Su questa edizione

• Editore: W&N
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1841880108
• ISBN 13: 9781841880105
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 176