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A Selection from Simon Price
Published: 20/05/11
Paperback The Birth of Classical Europe : A History from Troy to Augustineby Simon PriceShows 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. (more info) Usually despatched immediately
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Published: 23/04/10
Hardback The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustineby Simon PriceTo 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 cultures. As 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... (more info) Usually despatched immediately
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