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The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present
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How the modern world has understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter todayThe study of ancient Greek history has been central to the western conception of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of History traces the shifting patterns of this preoccupation in the last three centuries, in which each generation has reinterpreted the Greeks in the light of their contemporary world, through times of revolution, conflicting ideologies and warfare. It aims to offer a new history of Greek historiography from the Enlightenment to the present, and to acknowledge the continuing spiritual importance of the ancient Greeks for European culture in the twentieth century under totalitarian persecutions. Through the study of different historians, many of them unjustly forgotten, it shows the problematic nature of the Anglo-Saxon tradition and the importance of ideas from the continent of Europe, the ambiguities of democracy, and the impossibility of understanding the past or the present outside our common European heritage. It ends by offering suggestions for the future of the study of the Greeks in the context of world history.
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| Weight | 0.94 kg |
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| Dimensions | 3.3 × 16.5 × 24.2 cm |
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| Format | Hardback |
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| Pages | 528 |
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| Year Published | 2024-5-16 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0241360579 |
| About The Author | Oswyn Murray is a leading scholar of the ancient world. He is the author of Early Greece, and The Symposion: Drinking Greek Style, and co-editor, with John Boardman and Jasper Griffin of the Oxford History of the Classical World. His works have been translated into many languages. |
In this erudite and elegant book, Oswyn Murray examines how the history of Greece has been written from the Enlightenment to our own dark time. He follows historians as they travel, to explore Greek sites or to flee persecution; he examines scholarly traditions and institutions as they take shape; he catches new and powerful theses as they crystallize. Above all, he reveals the historians themselves, in all their complex humanity. It's a marvellous story, full of life and told with wit and warmth |
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| Other text | Oswyn Murray, a foremost historian of western antiquity, here combines trenchant historiographical analysis with biographical snapshots of a host of colourful and innovative classical scholars, many of whom he knew personally. The Muse of History is written with passion, wit, and the firm conviction that ancient history always has, and always will, be of great importance and interest to us all |
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