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The Birth Of Classical Europe: A History From Troy To Augustine
'The Penguin History of Europe series is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New StatesmanTo an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world At every level from languages to calendars to political systems we are the descendants of a 'classical Europe' using frames of reference created by ancient Mediterranean culturesAs this consistently fresh and surprising new book makes clear however this was no less true for the inhabitants of those classical civilizations themselves whose myths history and buildings were an elaborate engagement with an already old and revered past filled with great leaders and writers emigrations and battles Indeed much of the reason we know so much about the classical past is the obsessive importance it held for so many
generations of Greeks and Romans who interpreted and reinterpreted their changing casts of heroes and villains Figures such as Alexander the Great and Augustus Caesar loom large in our imaginations today but they were themselves fascinated by what had preceded themThe Birth of Classical Europe is therefore both an authoritative history and also a fascinating attempt to show how our own changing values and interests have shaped our feelings about an era which is by some measures very remote but by others startlingly close
generations of Greeks and Romans who interpreted and reinterpreted their changing casts of heroes and villains Figures such as Alexander the Great and Augustus Caesar loom large in our imaginations today but they were themselves fascinated by what had preceded themThe Birth of Classical Europe is therefore both an authoritative history and also a fascinating attempt to show how our own changing values and interests have shaped our feelings about an era which is by some measures very remote but by others startlingly close
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