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The Classical Tradition

By Anthony Grafton (Editor), Salvatore Settis (Editor), Glenn W. Most (Editor)
Hardcover
$84.00
By Anthony Grafton (Editor), Salvatore Settis (Editor), Glenn W. Most (Editor)
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“A vast cabinet of curiosities.”—Stephen Greenblatt

“Eclectic rather than exhaustive, less an encyclopedia than a buffet.”—Frederic Raphael, Literary Review

How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus’s sirens to those of an ambulance? The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome is all around us, imitated, resisted, reworked, and misunderstood. In this beautifully illustrated and encyclopedic compendium, a team of leading scholars investigates the afterlife of this rich heritage in...

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