The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine (Penguin History of Europe) - Hardcover

Price, Simon; Thonemann, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670022470 ISBN 13: 9780670022472

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2011

Synopsis

Shares revisionist insights into the influences of classical cultures, revealing the lesser-known roles played by ancient civilizations on shaping the modern West, in an account that also cites the contributions of world-shaping Greek and Roman figures.

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Review:

An elegant and readable attempt to undertake the impossible and confine [Europe's classical] history within fewer than 400 pages. (Nick Rennison Sunday Times)

The Birth of Classical Europe combines a strong narrative with sophisticated thematic analysis and reflection ... Despite the immense ground covered, there is no impression of the breathlessness and superficiality which one might have thought unavoidable. (Simon Hornblower TLS)

They have presented a wide variety of both interpretative and expository material in accessible form. (Paul Cartledge History Today)

Simon Price and Peter Thonemann's attractive new book offers a seamless history across more than two millennia ... [and] by insisting on the unifying relationship between the present and what has gone on before, [they] place themselves in the same intellectual tradition as Augustine. (Christopher Kelly BBC History Magazine)

About the Author:

Simon Price was a lecturer in Greek and Roman history at Lady Margaret Hall and St. Hugh's College, Oxford, and has writtenk and edited numerous books on ancient religions.
Peter Thonemann taught Greek and Roman history at Wadham College, Oxford.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0670022470
• ISBN 13: 9780670022472
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 397