Книга: Simon Price, Peter Thonemann «The Birth of Classical Europe»
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Производитель: "Penguin" To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a ?classical Europe?, using frames of reference created by ancient Mediterranean cultures. As this consistently fresh and surprising new book makes clear, however, this was no less true for the inhabitants of those classical civilizations themselves, whose myths, history, and buildings were an elaborate engagement with an already old and revered past filled with great leaders and writers, emigrations and battles. Indeed, much of the reason we know so much about the classical past is the obsessive importance it held for so many generations of Greeks and Romans, who interpreted and reinterpreted their changing casts of heroes and villains. Figures such as Alexander the Great and Augustus Caesar loom large in our imaginations today, but they were themselves fascinated by what had preceded them. The Birth... ISBN:0140274855, 9780140274851 Издательство: "Penguin" (2011)
ISBN: 9780140274851 |
Simon Price
Simon Price is a music journalist, born on
He made his name at "
Price is renowned for being passionate about music and his acerbic turn of phrase. He has also been interviewed on the subject of Manic Street Preachers and is known to hold strong views on the band and their fans.
"Famously, there are two types of Manics fans. I think everyone's got the old fan/new fan thing wrong. Everyone thinks the older fans are the ones who really understand the band and the younger ones are just bandwagon jumpers. I think it's the other way round. Anyone over the age of 25 at a Manics gig, probably only got into them with '
Price also runs a monthly glam-electro-alternative club night in
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Источник: Simon Price
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