Silk Michael et al. The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought

Wiley Blackwell, 2014. — xiii, 516 pages. — ISBN: 978-1-4051-5549-6.The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought 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.Features a unique combination of chronological range, cultural scope, coherent argument, and unified analysis
Written in a lively, engaging, and elegant manner
Presents an innovative overview of the afterlife of antiquity
Crosses disciplinary boundaries to make new sense of a rich variety of material, rarely brought together
Fully illustrated with a mix of color and black & white imagesOverview
The Classical Tradition and the Scope of Our Book
Mapping the Field
Eras
Sustaining the Tradition: Classics and Education
Authority and Authorities
Masters of Knowledge
Models of Style
Beacons of Morality
Love Guides
Special Relationships
The Visual Arts: Contexts and Connections
Popular Culture and Its Problematics
Languages and Language
Modes of Engagement
Translation
Science and Sensibility
Looking at the Past
The Classical Tradition – and the Rest
ArchetypesThe Dome
The Hero
Word-Genres
The ImaginaryMyth
The City: Rome
Forms of Government
The Order of Things
Making a DifferenceOriginators
Points of Departure
Ideas and Action
Contrasts and ComparisonsPainting
Political Thought
Poetry