Greek Fire, the influence of Ancient Greece on the modern world - Oliver Taplin
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The original Greek Fire was an inflammable substance invented to destroy ennemy ships. It was alleged to stay alight even under water, submerged in a contrary environment.
In this richly illustrated and intellectualy compelling book - already a bestseller in England - the noted classical scholar Oliver Taplin uses the term as a metaphor for the astonishing resiliency of ancient Greece, whose influence has persisted for more than two millennia.
Devoting individual chapters to subjects as tragedy, philosophy, science, myth, politics, sex, and warfare, Dr. Taplin explores the ways in which the modern world has been inspired by, reacted against, imitated, tranformed, recycled, subverted, and received Greek culture. In so doing, he demonstrates - brilliantly - why a new and fluid view of the Greek ideal - something quite different from that which the Renaissance artists or Victorian builders imagined - is surfacing today and what that phenomenon might mean for the twenty-first century.
Originally conceived as the co...
In this richly illustrated and intellectualy compelling book - already a bestseller in England - the noted classical scholar Oliver Taplin uses the term as a metaphor for the astonishing resiliency of ancient Greece, whose influence has persisted for more than two millennia.
Devoting individual chapters to subjects as tragedy, philosophy, science, myth, politics, sex, and warfare, Dr. Taplin explores the ways in which the modern world has been inspired by, reacted against, imitated, tranformed, recycled, subverted, and received Greek culture. In so doing, he demonstrates - brilliantly - why a new and fluid view of the Greek ideal - something quite different from that which the Renaissance artists or Victorian builders imagined - is surfacing today and what that phenomenon might mean for the twenty-first century.
Originally conceived as the co...
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