For several decades G. W. Bowersock has been one of our leading historians of the classical world. This volume collects seventeen of his essays, each illustrating how the classical past has captured the imagination of some of the greatest figures in modern historiography and literature. The essays here range across three centuries, the eighteenth to the twentieth, and are divid...(展开全部)

How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus’ sirens to an ambulance’s? The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, ...(展开全部)

Since the early 1960s, the rigor and conceptual clarity of Alan Colquhoun's criticism and theory have consistently stimulated debate and have served as an impetus for the pursuit of new directions in both theory and practice. This collection of essays displays Colquhoun's concern with developing a coherent discourse for the rampant pluralism that dominates contemporary architec...(展开全部)

Since the early 1960s, the rigor and conceptual clarity of Alan Colquhoun's criticism and theory have consistently stimulated debate and have served as an impetus for the pursuit of new directions in both theory and practice. This collection of essays displays Colquhoun's concern with developing a coherent discourse for the rampant pluralism that dominates contemporary architec...(展开全部)

Art and architecture have always been central to Venice but in the Renaissance period, between c.1440 and 1600, they reached a kind of apotheosis when many of the city's new buildings, sculpture, and paintings took on distinctive and original qualities. The spread of Renaissance values provided leading artists such as Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, Palladio, Titian, a...(展开全部)

吉尔伯特·海厄特（Gilbert Highet，1906—1978年），苏格兰裔美国古典学家、评论家、文学史家。1938年任哥伦比亚大学拉丁语和希腊语系主任，1950年任拉丁语言与文学安东讲座教授（Anthon Professor）。海厄特一生致力于古典文化的教学与研究，主要著作有《荷马概论》（An Outline of Homer,1935年）、《古典传统》（The Classical Tradition,1949年）、《教学的艺术》（The Art of Teaching,1950年）、《讽刺文学的解剖》（The Anatomy of Satire,1962年）。 王晨，毕业于上海交通大学，译作有《黑死病》、《骑士之爱与游吟诗人》、《论欧洲》、《拷问法国大革命》等。

吉尔伯特·海厄特（Gilbert Highet，1906—1978年），苏格兰裔美国古典学家、评论家、文学史家。1938年任哥伦比亚大学拉丁语和希腊语系主任，1950年任拉丁语言与文学安东讲座教授（Anthon Professor）。海厄特一生致力于古典文化的教学与研究，主要著作有《荷马概论》（An Outline of Homer,1935年）、《古典传统》（The Classical Tradition,1949年）、《教学的艺术》（The Art of Teaching,1950年）、《讽刺文学的解剖》（The Anatomy of Satire,1962年）。 王晨，毕业于上海交通大学，译作有《黑死病》、《骑士之爱与游吟诗人》、《论欧洲》、《拷问法国大革命》等。

Originally published in 1949, Gilbert Highet's seminal The Classical Tradition is a herculean feat of comparative literature and a landmark publication in the history of classical reception. As Highet states in the opening lines of his Preface, this book outlines <"the chief ways in which Greek and Latin influence has moulded the literatures of western Europe and America.>" Wit...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1949, Gilbert Highet's seminal The Classical Tradition is a herculean feat of comparative literature and a landmark publication in the history of classical reception. As Highet states in the opening lines of his Preface, this book outlines <"the chief ways in which Greek and Latin influence has moulded the literatures of western Europe and America.>" Wit...(展开全部)

Narratives of Enlightenment is an interdisciplinary study of cosmopolitan approaches to the past. It reappraises the work of five of the most important narrative historians of the century - Voltaire, David Hume, William Robertson, Edward Gibbon and the historian of the American Revolution, David Ramsay - in the context of political and national debates in France, Scotland, Engl...(展开全部)