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Chronicles the history and development of the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome, exploring each group's art, architecture, literature, philosophy, and politics and explaining the role they played in the creating the foundations of Western civilization.
Robin Lane Fox publicó hace unos años una monumental biografía de Alejandro Magno (El Acantilado) y este profesor de Oxford es, en parte, responsable del peinado que tenía Colin Farrell en la película de Oliver Stone. En El mundo clásico, Lane Fox recorre prácticamente nueve siglos de historia de Grecia y Roma con tres temas como hilos conductores: la libertad (quién era libre, de quién y para qué), la justicia (quién la impartía y en qué medida estaba restringido por las leyes) y el lujo (como símbolo del poder y sus efectos económicos). Aunque, como una historia ordinaria, recoge los acontecimientos principales, está mucho más centrada en la visión que griegos y romanos tenían de sí mismos en cada momento, y si respondía o no a la realidad.
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He found his father alone in his well-ordered orchard Digging round a plant: he was wearing a dirty tunic, Patched and unseemly, and round his shins he had bound Sew leather leg-guards, keeping off scratches, And he had gloves on his hands because of the thorns. On his head he wore a goatskin cap, increasing his air of sorrow. When noble, enduring Odysseus saw him Worn by old age and with such great sadness in his heart, He stood beneath a tall pear-tree and shed tears . . .
Odysseus returns to his father: Homer, Odyssey 24, 226 - 34
This tomb of well-sculpted metal Covers the dad body of a great hero, Zenodotus. But his soul is in heaven, where Orpheus is, Where Plato is, and has found a holy seat, fit to receive a god. For, he was a valiant cavalryman in the Emperor's service, Famous, eloquent, god-like. In his speech He was a copy of Socrates among the Italian people. Leaving to his children his sound ancestral fortune, He has died, a fit old man, leaving boundless sorrow To his well-born friends, his city and its citizens.
Palatine Anthology 7.363, possibly composed by Hadrian himself.
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For Martha
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The 'classical world' is the world of the ancient Greeks and Romans, some forty lifetimes before our own but still able to challenge us by a humanity shared with ours.
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But he had no idea that the Christians, whose harassment he regulated, would then overturn this world by antiquity's greatest realignment of freedom and justice: the 'underworld' would no longer be a garden-designer's fancy.
Chronicles the history and development of the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome, exploring each group's art, architecture, literature, philosophy, and politics and explaining the role they played in the creating the foundations of Western civilization.