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The children of Athena, Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 150 BC-400 AD, Charles Freeman

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The children of Athena, Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 150 BC-400 AD, Charles Freeman

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eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-368) and index

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index present

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non fiction

Main title

The children of Athena

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bibliography

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1395955907

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Charles Freeman

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Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 150 BC-400 AD

Summary

"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. Charles Freeman's accounts of such luminaries as the physician Galen, the geographer Ptolemy, and the philosopher Plotinus are interwoven with contextual "interludes" that showcase a sequence of unjustly neglected and richly influential lives. A cultural history on an epic scale, The Children of Athena presents the story of a rich and vibrant tradition of Greek intellectual inquiry across a period of more than five hundred years, from the second century BC to the start of the fifth century AD."--Amazon

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Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 150 BC-400 AD

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