剑桥插图古希腊史

Cambridge Illustrated Histories

by Paul Cartledge, 保罗·卡特利奇, 郭小凌 (Translator)

本书插图丰富，内容充满迷人的信息，对古希腊文化进行了全新的诠释，涵盖了古希腊社会生活的方方面面。为使普通读者理解“光荣属于希腊”的含义，作者考察了环境和经济的影响，城邦之间紧张关系所造成的结果，性别的含义，探析了工人、士兵、奴隶、农民、妇女的生活经历以及神话与宗教、艺术与文化、科学与教育的作用。本书是一部文化史，它展现了古希腊在语言、文学、艺术和政治方面留给我们的意义深远的遗产，探究了雪莱宣称的“我们都是希腊人”的理由。

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Ancient History, Greece, Classics, World History, Ancient

390 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Paul Anthony Cartledge is the 1st A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University, having previously held a personal chair in Greek History at Cambridge. He was educated at St Paul's School & New College, Oxford where he took his 1st degree & completed his doctoral thesis in Spartan archaeology in 1975 under Prof. Sir John Boardman. After a period at the University of Warwick he moved in 10/79 to Cambridge University where he's a fellow of Clare College.
He's a world expert on Athens & Sparta in the Classical Age & has been described as a Laconophile. He was chief historical consultant for the BBC TV series The Greeks & the Channel 4 series The Spartans, presented by Bettany Hughes. He's also a holder of the Gold Cross of the Order of Honour & an Honorary Citizen of modern Sparta. Besides the Leventis Professorship, he holds a visiting Global Distinguished Professorship at New York University, funded by the Greek Parliament.

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ancient Greece is a subject for which there are plenty of books from which to choose. While many of these fine studies have their merits for their examinations of particular aspects of the subject, for someone seeking a single-volume overview this book is hard to beat. To start with it's edited by Paul Cartledge, one of the foremost scholars of classical Greece and a prolific author of several books on various aspects of the era. He is also the foremost contributor to the book, having authored nearly a half dozen different chapters. Most of these address cover the politics and government of the ancient Greek states, with the remaining entries provided by the other eight contributors. These range from Sue Alcock's excellent chapter on the environment of ancient Greece to Richard Buxton's examination of classical Greek religion and myth. Taken together, they provide an extremely well-rounded introduction to the subject, one that addresses everything from society to the visual arts and the development of science. With an abundant amount of maps and illustrations and a useful (if now perhaps a little dated) guide to further reading at the end of the book, it's an excellent place to begin for anyone seeking to learn about the birthplace of Western civilization and its contributions to the world in which we live today.

[Koen Crolla · Rating 3 out of 5]

Definitely written for the general public as it exists in the minds of publishers (even, apparently, the Cambridge University Press), with all the weird emphases, bizarre presumptions, and outdated material that implies. Every chapter is written by a different author, so exactly how that manifests itself varies from chapter to chapter, but many still start, for example, from the premise that Athens was a noble and honourable society, whose many less savoury aspects (slavery, misogyny—not, of course, imperialism) are to be treated in that context (Sparta receives no such sympathy, incidentally: its defining trait is its keeping of helots), and the expected ahistorical insistence that Athenian culture is foundational to "European" culture rears its head more than a few times.
To accuse the authors of having produced white nationalist propaganda is to impute a greater level self-awareness and malice than is probably tenable, however, and I don't mean to suggest that The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece is worse in any respect than can be expected of a non-youth genpop survey picture book of Ancient Greece released in the late '90s—in fact, the extent to which it is exactly what you would expect it to be is nothing short of impressive. The promised photographs are also as plentiful and high-quality as you would hope, even if the only real information most of them convey is the publisher's lack of faith in your attention span; whether you're a grandparent or awkward uncle looking for a gift for a twelve-year-old or a history teacher looking for things to scan to pad out your slides (like, in fact, the person on whose recommendation I got this), there's much to enjoy in this book. If you have a real interest in some aspect of Ancient Greece, though, maybe skip over this kind of thing and get straight to the CUP's less fluffy output.

[Richard Hessney · Rating 3 out of 5]

The main attraction of this coffee-table-sized tome is in the hundreds of illustrations and photos, particularly of painted pottery. It isn't a good narrative history because the main text is constantly interrupted by boxes, some of them 2-page spreads, on topics tangential to the chapter subject. The book is best suited as a reference work and for those who are "visual learners."

[Marlies]

This might be more interesting--it has pictures! : )