{"product_id":"9781803281957","title":"The Children of Athena : Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC–AD 400","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Freeman, Charles \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 09\/11\/2023,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 400 pages, 1 x 8pp col,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781803281957,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\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":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55292529934709,"sku":"9781803281957","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781803281957.jpg?v=1745169957","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.pro\/products\/9781803281957","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}