This single-author survey combines an authoritative and engaging retelling of the history of ancient Greece with an assessment of the relevance of the Greeks today. Drawing upon the latest archaeological research and a wealth of textual evidence, Jeremy McInerney describes an extraordinary culture that produced innovations in such areas as philosophy, democracy and medicine tha...(展开全部)

大卫·波特 密歇根大学希腊和拉丁语终身教席教授（FrancisW.KelseyCollegiateProfessor，ArthurF.ThurnauProfessor）。他是国际上知名的罗马帝国史学术权威，也是许多学术文章和书籍的作者。

The business of politics - the vital process of conducting government through the dynamics of argument, conflict and decision-making - offers us one of the most revealing areas of insight into any society. Sir Moses Finley's exploration of politics in the city states of Greece and republican Rome yields insights into the arenas of political debate which have made a major impact...(展开全部)

From Ancient Greece, modern Western civilisation has derived many of its artistic philosophical and political ideals. But, in certain areas of sexual tolerance and inventiveness, we still have much to learn from the land and age which produced the most flourishing and creative culture of the ancient world. Professor Hans Licht, in this erudite and fascinating book, discusses in...(展开全部)

本杰明・史华兹（Ben jasmin l．Schwartz），生于1916年12月12日，卒于1999年11月14日。1960年起任哈佛大学教授，并以其博雅和睿智，在该校东亚中心被尊称为“学者的学者”。除了作为其扛鼎之作的本书，还写有《中国的共产主义和毛的兴起》（1951年）、《寻求富强：严复和西方》（1964年）、《共产主义和中国：变动中的思想意识》（1968年）、《中国文化的价值》（1985年）和《中国及其他》（199年）等。

The center of this prodigious work of scholarship is a fresh examination of the range of Chinese culture thought during the formative period of Chinese culture. Benjamin Schwartz looks at the surviving texts of this period with a particular focus on the range of diversity to be found in them. While emphasizing the problematic and complex nature of this thought he also considers...(展开全部)

Long before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand copied on reeds pulled from the Nile were the treasures of the ancient world. Emperors and Pharaohs were so determined to possess them that they dispatched emissaries to the edges of earth to bring them back. When Mark Antony wanted to impress Cleopatra, he knew that gold and priceless jewels would mean nothing to her. So, what...(展开全部)

作者简介： 弗雷德里克•乔治•凯尼恩爵士（Sir Frederic George Kenyon，1863—1952）是英国著名古典学家、圣经学家和古文书学家。1863年1月生于伦敦，先后就读于温切斯特公学和牛津大学新学院，毕业后1883年被遴选为牛津大学麦格达伦学院教研人员。1889年成为大英博物馆助理馆员，1898年被选为写本部副部长。1909年被任命为大英博物馆馆长、图书馆首席馆员，担任此职一直到1931年退休。其间，1912年被封为爵士，1913年担任古典学会会长，1917年成为英国人文与社会科学院院长，1918年成为英国皇家艺术学院古代史教授，1919年成为希腊学研究学会会长。 凯尼恩毕生致力于纸草文献的整理、研究和出版，著述颇丰，主要有：亚里士多德《雅典宪法》的首个校勘整理本以及英文翻译（1891, 1904, 1920），《大英博物馆所藏...(展开全部)