The Greeks and Greek civilization
1st U.S. ed.
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Author
Contributions
- Murray, Oswyn. - Contributor
Publication
1998 - St. Martin's Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
112,250 words, Guess
Page Count
449 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL369453M
- ISBN-100312192762
- OCLC Control Number98030107
- OCLC Control Number39458906
- OCLC Control Numbergreeksgreekcivil00burc
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- Library of Congress Control Number98030107
- LibraryThing98070
- Goodreads2443101
Classifications
- DDC938
- LCCDF77 .B94213 1998
Description
Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) is perhaps the preeminent historian of classical and Renaissance art, architecture, and culture. Burckhardt completed significant " cultural history," which he only described in his famous Reflections on History and in a celebrated series of lectures delivered in Basel in 1872. Burckhardt dramatically renounced these speeches during his own lifetime, fearing a hostile reception by a world body of scholars and critics who remained wedded to a romanticized view of the ancient Greek world. It is only now, for the first time, that the core of these lectures is available in book form to the English-language reader. Rejecting the notion that a perfect democracy had in fact existed, Burckhardt portrayed ancient Greek culture as an aristocratic world based on ruthless competition for honor, which led, in turn, to a tyrannous state with minimal freedoms.
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