迈克尔·格兰特（Michael Grant，1914—2004），英国著名的古典学家，历史畅销书作者，曾任爱丁堡大学拉丁文学教授，喀土穆大学与女王大学校长。他翻译的塔西佗《编年史》至今仍然是常用译本，他还翻译了诸多其他古典作家的作品，并著有《希腊人的崛起》《罗马之巅》《维苏威的城市》等多达七十部关于希腊、罗马、中世纪历史的著作，其《古典时期的希腊》一书更是被译为德语等多种版本。格兰特教授退休后潜心写作，是古代史领域少见的自由作家，《泰晤士报》将其评为少有的“同时赢得学术界与普通读者尊重的经典史学家”。 译者刘峰，海德堡大学古代史与碑铭系博士生。

The Greeks were extraordinary not least because they evolved 'a totally new conception of what human life was for'. Elaborating on that claim, the author explores the life, culture and history of classical Greece.

The Greeks were extraordinary not least because they evolved 'a totally new conception of what human life was for'. Elaborating on that claim, the author explores the life, culture and history of classical Greece.

詹姆斯·伦肖（James Renshaw），古典文学学历背景，先后在多所大学教授古典文学。目前在英国教授古典文学，同时也是一名作家。伦肖是2017年“OCR古典文明和古代历史”丛书的作者及总编辑，该丛书原用于英国GCSE（英国普通初级中学）相关主题考试。

This 1999 book is about the religious life of the Greeks from the eighth century BC to the fifth century AD, looked at in the context of a variety of different cities and periods. Simon Price does not describe some abstract and self-contained system of religion or myths but examines local practices and ideas in the light of general Greek ideas, relating them for example, to gen...(展开全部)

This 1999 book is about the religious life of the Greeks from the eighth century BC to the fifth century AD, looked at in the context of a variety of different cities and periods. Simon Price does not describe some abstract and self-contained system of religion or myths but examines local practices and ideas in the light of general Greek ideas, relating them for example, to gen...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·伦肖（James Renshaw），古典文学学历背景，先后在多所大学教授古典文学。目前在英国教授古典文学，同时也是一名作家。伦肖是2017年“OCR古典文明和古代历史”丛书的作者及总编辑，该丛书原用于英国GCSE（英国普通初级中学）相关主题考试。

Michael Young has christened the oligarchy of the future “Meritocracy.” Indeed, the word is now part of the English language. It would appear that the formula: IQ+Effort=Merit may well constitute the basic belief of the ruling class in the twenty-first century. Projecting himself into the year 2034, the author of this sociological satire shows how present decisions and practice...(展开全部)

The understanding of the soul in the West has been profoundly shaped by Christianity, and its influence can be seen in certain assumptions often made about the soul: that, for example, if it does exist, it is separable from the body, free, immortal, and potentially pure. The ancient Greeks, however, conceived of the soul quite differently. In this ambitious new work, Michael Da...(展开全部)

For the Greeks, the sharing of cooked meats was the fundamental communal act, so that to become vegetarian was a way of refusing society. It follows that the roasting or cooking of meat was a political act, as the division of portions asserted a social order. And the only proper manner of preparing meat for consumption, according to the Greeks, was blood sacrifice. The fundamen...(展开全部)