傻瓜指南系列:古希腊ANCIENT GREECE: THE COMPLETE I

分類: 图书,进口原版书,旅游与地理 Travel Guide ,
作者: Eric D. Nelson 等著
出 版 社: 上海蓝泉外文图书有限公司
出版时间: 2004-1-1字数:版次: 1页数: 388印刷时间: 2005/02/01开本:印次:纸张: 胶版纸I S B N : 9781592572731包装: 平装内容简介
The incredible influence of Ancient Greek culture on everything from science to literature to politics continues to be relevant—and hotly debated. In The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Ancient Greece, you are invited to meet the Ancient Greeks and to understand their legacy by entering their world.
• Profiles the most important contributions of Greek culture, including mythology, philosophy, medicine, and the Olympic games
• Includes further reading and travel information to help in planning a personal Odyssey
作者简介
Eric D. Nelson, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of classics at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington. He is the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Roman Empire and several scholarly works regarding the life and writings of Hippocrates.
Susan Allard-Nelson, Ph.D., specializes in ancient philosophy, particularly Aristotle, and in ethics. The author of An Aristotelian Approach to Ethical Theory: The Norms of Virtue, she teaches philosophy and writing at Pacific Lutheran University.
目录
Part1:All Greek to You?
1 Beware of Greeks Gifts-You Might Like Them
2 Classical Gas:Ancient Greek Literature and Art at a Glance
3 Classical Analysis:Greek History,Philosophy,Science,and Architeceure at a Glance
4 Greek FAQs:Hot Topics in Brief
5 By Zeus!Ancient Greek Religion and Mythology
Part2:The Bronze Age Through the Archaic Period
6 Where in the Hellas?Ancient Greece and Its Neighbors
7 Bulish on the Bronze Age;The Minans and Mycenaeans
8 The Myserious“Dorian Invasion”and the Obscurities of the “Dark Age”
9 The Archaic-and Aristocratic-Big Bang
10 A Cultural Explosion:Archic Literature Artnd Architecture
11 Go for the Gold!The Games of Ancient Greece
12 Two to Tango:Athens and Sparta
Part3:The Height of the Classical Period and the Plois
13 The Persin Wars
14 Democracy ls Coming:Athens at the Helm
15 The Peloponnesian War
16 Classical Cvltvre
17 Method from the Madness?lntellectual Artistic and Literary Developments of the Fifth Century
Part4:The Brekdown of the Polis to the Death of Alexander the Great
18 Political Cvthroat:Shifting Dominance
19 The Man with the Silver Spear:Philip of Macedon and the Conquest of Greece
20 Life Literatureand Cvlture in the Twilight of the Polis
21 Boy Wonder:Alexander the Great and His Conquests
Part5:The Legacy of Hellas
22 Citizens of the World:The Cosmopolis and Hellenistic Culture
23 You Will Be Assimilated:Hellenism and the Coming of Rome
24 Trojan Horse?The Greek Legacy from Rome to the Renaissance
25 Radical:Romantic and Revolutionary:Ancient Greece from the Renaissance to Today
Appendixes
A Your Own Odyssey:Reading Surfing and Travel Lltinergaries in Ancient Hellas
B Glossary
Index