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A vivid exploration of the many ways the classical world remains relevant today, this is a passionate justification of why we continue to read about and study the lives and works of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Challenging the way the phrase 'That's just ancient history' is used to dismiss something as being irrelevant, Greg and Alicia Aldrete demonstrate just how much ancient Greece and Rome have influenced and shaped our world today in ways both large and small. From the more commonly known influences on politics, law, literature and timekeeping through to the everyday rituals and routines we take for granted when we exercise, dine, marry and dress, we are rooted in the ancient world. Even the political upheaval, celebrity obsession and blurring of public and private boundaries that we see in current news betray ancient characteristics - now brought to the fore here in a new final chapter. If you have ever wondered how far exactly we still walk in the footsteps of the ancients or wanted to understand how study of the classical world can inform and explain our lives today, this is the book for you.


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  • Author : Gregory S. Aldrete
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Total Pages : 424 pages
  • ISBN : 1350100528
  • PDF File Size : 46,9 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews

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The Long Shadow of Antiquity

The Long Shadow of Antiquity
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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  • Release Date : 07 February 2019
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  • Release Date : 01 January 2005
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This interdisciplinary volume explores the ancient Greek myth of Medea and its global analogues found in other mythic and folk tales of deadly, exiled women, such as those of La

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  • Release Date : 27 July 2018
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  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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Throughout the longue dureé of Western culture, how have people represented mountains as landscapes of the imagination and as places of real experience? In what ways has human understanding of

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  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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  • Release Date : 29 August 2019
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A selection of the work of ten poets with detailed introduction and linguistic, literary and cultural commentary suitable for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, but also of interest to scholars.

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The End of Greek Athletics in Late Antiquity
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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  • Release Date : 28 May 2015
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A comprehensive study of how and why athletic contests, a characteristic feature of ancient Greek culture, disappeared in late antiquity.