The ancient Romans changed more than the map of the world when they conquered so much of it; they altered the way historical time itself is marked and understood. In this brilliant, erudite, and exhilarating book Denis Feeney investigates time and its contours as described by the ancient Romans, first as Rome positioned itself in relation to Greece and then as it exerted its in...(展开全部)

The ancient Romans changed more than the map of the world when they conquered so much of it; they altered the way historical time itself is marked and understood. In this brilliant, erudite, and exhilarating book Denis Feeney investigates time and its contours as described by the ancient Romans, first as Rome positioned itself in relation to Greece and then as it exerted its in...(展开全部)

One of the most vexing problems in Egyptology is the question of establishing reliable chronologies, whether through relative methods such as stratigraphy and the dating of artifacts or through more absolute time horizons established by astronomical ephemera or radiometric dating. In this overview of ancient Egypt--meant for advanced students, but accessible to general readers ...(展开全部)

Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established themselves as its new masters. The Anglo-Saxons traces the turbulent history of these peopl...(展开全部)

Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established themselves as its new masters. The Anglo-Saxons traces the turbulent history of these peopl...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 years What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book―against a background of t...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 years What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book―against a background of t...(展开全部)

Some years ago, David Freedberg opened a dusty cupboard at Windsor Castle and discovered hundreds of vividly coloured, masterfully precise drawings of all sorts of plants and animals from the Old and New Worlds. Coming upon thousands more drawings like them across Europe, Freedberg finally traced them all back to a little-known scientific organization from 17th-century Italy ca...(展开全部)

Babylon: for eons its very name has been a byword for luxury and wickedness. ""By the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept,"" wrote the psalmist, ""as we remembered Zion."" One of the greatest cities of the ancient world, Babylon has been eclipsed by its own sinful reputation. For two thousand years the real, physical metropolis lay buried while another, ghostly city lived on...(展开全部)

【格罗塞】 （Ernst Grosse，1862—1927）德国艺术史家、社会学家，现代艺术社会学奠基人之一。曾任弗赖堡大学教授。主要著作有：《艺术的起源》（1894）、《艺术学研究》（1900）等。美学上他主张把哲学美学与艺术科学分离开来，他认为包括艺术在内的精神生活与社会的经济形态之间有密切关系。提倡从社会学、人类学、民族学等多方面对艺术学和艺术史进行研究。他认为艺术科学的真正目的，是对艺术的性质、产生艺术的原因及其效果作全面探讨。艺术活动也是审美活动，它的发展过程或后果都有直接的感情价值，这种感情价值大半是愉快的。所以艺术（或审美）本身也是目的，其它的目的无关紧要。除了艺术活动，还有实际活动（如生产劳动）和游戏活动。实际活动是一种手段，而游戏活动中则介于二者之间。他用社会学的观点深入考察了原始民族的艺术，利用人种史和人类学的资料，阐明艺术起源的...(展开全部)