A Brief Guide to Classical Civilization : From the origins of democracy to the fall of the Roman Empire

Stephen Kershaw
A Brief Guide to Classical Civilization : From the origins of democracy to the fall of the Roman Empire
A Brief Guide to Classical Civilization : From the origins of democracy to the fall of the Roman Empire

A Brief Guide to Classical Civilization : From the origins of democracy to the fall of the Roman Empire
ISBN: 9781845298869
Publication Date: 26 August 2010

A general introduction to the classical world from its origins to the fall of the Roman Empire.

The book focuses on questions of how we know about Classical civilisation from archaeology and history; deals with the Mycenaean era and the world of Myth and Epic in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey; gives an outline of Greek history in the 5th & 4th Centuries BC; looks at Greek social life and the alternative model of Sparta, and considers the achievements of the Greeks in their art and architecture, tragedy and comedy.

Turning to Rome, it engages with Roman history, the Roman Epic tradition, the fascinating features of Roman social life, analyses Roman satire, explores the urban environment in Pompeii and Herculaneum, and concludes with the End of Rome.