The Classical Tradition

<p><i>The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought</i> presents an authoritative, coherent and wide-ranging guide to the afterlife of Greco-Roman antiquity in later Western cultures and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of large aspects of Western culture as a whole from a classical perspective.</p> <ul> <li>Features a unique combination of chronological range, cultural scope, coherent argument, and unified analysis</li> <li>Written in a lively, engaging, and elegant manner</li> <li>Presents an innovative overview of the afterlife of antiquity</li> <li>Crosses disciplinary boundaries to make new sense of a rich variety of material, rarely brought together</li> <li>Fully illustrated with a mix of color and black & white images</li> </ul>