CHILDREN OF ATHENA : GREEK WRITERS AND THINKERS IN THE AGE OF ROME

L'histoire remarquable de la façon dont les écrivains et les penseurs de langue grecque ont maintenu et développé l'héritage intellectuel de la Grèce classique sous la domination de Rome.

In 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.

However, 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.

This 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.

Children of Athena : Greek writers and thinkers in the age of rome - 1803281952 - Charles Freeman