本书以丰富的考古发现、文物真迹、古典文献以及各种复原图、地图、画作、建筑、雕塑，还原了公元前5世纪，古希腊历史上的星光灿烂、百花齐放的时代——古典希腊时期。 古典美学的准则，逻辑和理性思维，共同生活以及解决冲突的社会伦理，法律面前人人平等的理念，民主和参与式政治的思想基础，个人主义、人文主义、科学的方法和原则，这些奠定西方乃至世界文化、政治等领域基础的理念，都在这一时期得以形成。 即使在新科技如火如荼的今天，从本质上讲，西方人仍然是古希腊人。

From the birth of the universe to the creation of humankind, Stephen Fry - who fell in love with these stories as a child - retells these myths for our tragic, comic, fateful age. Witness Athena born from the cracking open of Zeus's great head and follow Persephone down into the dark realm of Hades. Experience the terrible and endless fate of Prometheus after his betrayal of Ze...(展开全部)

The Greek myths are amongst the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce and Walt Disney.

The Greek myths are amongst the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce and Walt Disney.

"Is there anyone on earth who is so narrow-minded or uninquisitive that he could fail to want to know how and thanks to what kind of political system almost the entire known world was conquered and brought under a single empire in less than fifty-three years?" --Polybius, Histories The 53-year period Polybius had in mind stretched from the start of the Second Punic War in 219 B...(展开全部)

The 53-year period Polybius had in mind stretched from the start of the Second Punic War in 219 BCE until 167, when Rome overthrew the Macedonian monarchy and divided the country into four independent republics. This was the crucial half-century of Rome's spectacular rise to imperial status, but Roman interest in its eastern neighbors began a little earlier, with the First Illy...(展开全部)

A classic text for theatre and film it has sold 100,000 copies in its first edition.

"The Story of the Stone (c. 1760)", also known by the title of "The Dream of the Red Chamber", is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. Divided into five volumes, of which "The Warning Voice" is the third, it charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family (a story which closely accords with the fortunes of the author's own family). The two main character...(展开全部)

乔治•芬利（George Finlay，1799—1875），英国著名历史学家。他曾于格拉斯哥大学、哥廷根大学、爱丁堡大学学习法律，却对希腊解放事业充满热情，在希腊独立战争中追随拜伦勋爵，后定居希腊。他积极投身希腊的国家改善计划，但收效甚微，此后便将注意力转向历史研究，其七卷本巨著《罗马征服以来的希腊史：前146—1864》被视作吉本以来英国史学界最伟大的著作，也成为研究希腊历史、罗马帝国后期尤其是拜占庭帝国历史无法绕过的经典。 译者： 吕厚量，爱丁堡大学古典学博士，北京师范大学历史学院教授，掌握古希腊语、拉丁语、英语、法语，主要从事古希腊罗马史研究。已出版专著Xenophon’s Theory of Moral Education、《古希腊史学中帝国形象的演变研究》；独立译作《罗马革命》《汤因比传》《塔西佗》。