Название: The Children of Athena: Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 250 BC-400 AD
Автор: Charles Freeman
Издательство: Pegasus Books
ISBN: 163936515X
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 400
Размер: 16,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

A brilliant, fascinating portrait of the intellectual tradition of Greek writers and thinkers during the Age of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek city-states rebelled against Rome, the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla destroyed the city of Socrates and Plato, laying waste to the famous Academy where Aristotle had studied. However, the traditions of Greek cultural life continued to flourish during the centuries of Roman rule that followed—in the lives and work of a distinguished array of philosophers, doctors, scientists, geographers, and theologians.