The children of Athena : Greek writers and thinkers in the age of Rome, 150 BC-AD 400
Freeman, Charles, 1947-2024
Book
In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek city-states rebelled against Rome, the general Lucius Cornelius Sulla destroyed the city of Socrates and Plato, laying waste to the famous Academy where Aristotle had studied. However, the traditions of Greek cultural life would continue to flourish during the centuries of Roman rule that followed, in the lives and work of a distinguished array of philosophers, doctors, scientists, geographers, travellers and theologians. Charles Freeman's accounts of such luminaries as the physician Galen, the geographer Ptolemy and the philosopher Plotinus are interwoven with contextual 'interludes' that showcase a sequence of unjustly neglected and richly influential lives.
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Author:
Freeman, Charles, 1947-, author
Imprint:
London : Apollo, 2024.
Collation:
448 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781803281964 (pbk)
Dewey class:
938.09
Language:
English
BRN:
3879867