Contemporary Academic Introduction: Classics

Author: [British] Mary Beard, translated by Dong Leshan
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Publish Date: 1998-03-01
Features: "This book opens a gateway across the high wall that stands between us and the ancient Greeks and Romans. The guide is the ruins of an Apollo temple located in the remote mountains of Arcadia. The author starts with the temple ruins and fragments of sculptures, telling not only their functions and uses but also the builders, architectural concepts, and the ideas upon which these concepts were based. All of this demonstrates that although every relic of the ancient world appears unique, there are always some similarities. These similarities extend not only to architecture, sculpture, painting, and pottery but also to the poetry, drama, philosophy, and science that we continue to receive and quote to this day."