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)

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)

Hailed by Horace and Quintilian as the greatest of Greek lyric poets, Pindar has always enjoyed a privileged position in the so-called classical tradition of the West. Given the intense difficulty of the poetry, however, Pindaric interpretation has forever grappled with the perplexing dilemma that one of the most influential poets of antiquity should prove to be so dark. In dis...(展开全部)

雷德侯 1942年12月7日出生于慕尼黑。 1961-1969年在科函授生 、波恩、巴黎、台北、海德堡等地学习东亚艺术、欧洲艺术、汉学、日本学。 1969年以《清代的篆书》论文获海德堡大学东亚艺术史博士，随后至美国普林斯顿大学、哈佛大学修学。 1975-1976年供职于柏林国立博物馆、东亚艺术博物馆，1976年在科隆大学任教授，同年执教于海德堡大学东亚艺术史系，任系主任兼艺术史研究所所长，1978年任哲学历史学院院长。 雷德侯还是德国东方学会会长、柏林学术院院士、德意志考古研究所通讯员、海德堡学术院院士、英国学术院通讯院士。曾任剑桥、芝加哥、台湾大学客座教授或特约研究员。 其主持的展览有紫禁城的珍宝、兵马俑大军，日本与欧洲，中国明清绘画等。著《米蒂与中国书法的古典传统》、《兰与石——柏林东亚艺术博物馆藏中国书画》，《万物》于2002年获列文森图书奖。...(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)