{"product_id":"9781803281957","title":"The Children of Athena : Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC–AD 400","description":"Author(s): Freeman, Charles, \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003eDate of Publication: 09\/11\/2023, \u003cbr\u003ePagination: 400 pages, 1 x 8pp col, \u003cbr\u003eSeries: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Apollo, \u003cbr\u003e Published By: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, \u003cbr\u003eBook Classification: Ancient Greece\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 163 x 244 x 38mm\u003cbr\u003eWeight: 646g\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781803281957\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe remarkable story of how Greek-speaking writers and thinkers sustained and developed the intellectual legacy of Classical Greece under the rule of Rome.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; some 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 the famous Academy where Aristotle had studied.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever, the traditions of Greek cultural life would continue to flourish – across the eastern Mediterranean world and beyond – during the centuries of Roman rule that followed, in the lives and work of a distinguished array of philosophers, rhetoricians, historians, doctors, scientists, geographers and theologians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Freeman's accounts of such luminaries as the polymathic physician Galen, the soldier-botanist Dioscorides, the Alexandrian geographer and astronomer Ptolemy and the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus are interwoven with 'interludes' that counterpoint and contextualise a sequence of unjustly neglected and richly influential lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of a vibrant, constantly evolving tradition of intellectual inquiry across a period of more than five hundred years, from the second century BC to the start of the fifth century ad – one that would help shape the intellectual landscape of the Middle Ages and long after. The Children of Athena is a cultural history on an epic scale.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44332531843309,"sku":"9781803281957","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/files\/9781803281957_efbed512-64a4-402d-8498-3d9f1df94eae.jpg?v=1730829251","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781803281957","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}