Description
In 1872, Jacob Burckhardt, one of the preeminent historians of classical and Renaissance culture, presented this revolutionary work, which portrays ancient Greek culture as an aristocratic world based on a ruthless competition for honor, a competition that led, in turn, to a tyranous state with minimal personal freedoms. Burckhardt's landmark project, the culmination of thirty years of scholarlship by leading Oxford historian, Oswyn Murray, offers a rich cultural history of a fascinating society.
Author: Jacob Burckhardt, Burckardt
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 10/01/1999
Pages: 504
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.59lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.38w x 1.13d
ISBN13: 9780312244477
ISBN10: 0312244479
BISAC Categories:
- History | Ancient | Greece
About the Author
Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) was one of the greatest historians of the nineteenth century. He was professor of History and the History of Art at the University of Basel from 1858 to 1893, and was a mentor to Friedrich Nietzsche.
Dr. Oswyn Murray is CUF Lecturer in Ancient History, Faculty of Classics, at Oxford University, and director of an international project entitled Bibliotheca Academica Translationum, investigating the diffusion of classical studies through the translation of works of scholarship in Europe, 1700-1920.This title is not returnable