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The Greeks and Greek Civilization

By Oswyn Murray , Jacob Burckhardt , Sheila Stern

Book information

Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Year
1999
ISBN
0312244479, 9780312244477
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (17379839 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
504\494
Time added
2015-07-19 08:13:54

Description

In 1872, Jacob Burckhardt, one of the preeminent historians of classical and Renaissance culture, presented this revolutionary work, which portrays ancient Greek culture as an aristocratic world based on a ruthless competition for honor, a competition that led, in turn, to a tyranous state with minimal personal freedoms. Burckhardt's landmark project, the culmination of thirty years of scholarlship by leading Oxford historian, Oswyn Murray, offers a rich cultural history of a fascinating society.

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