Backgrounds of European Literature: The Political, Social, and Intellectual Development Behind the Great Books of Western Civilization

by Rod Horton, Vincent Foster Hopper

Pt. 1: Classicism -- the Greek spirit -- The Greek historical background -- Greek religion -- Greek myths and legends -- Athenian democracy in the Golden Age (500-322 b.c.) -- The development of the Greek drama -- Greek philosophy before Socrates -- The Roman spirit -- Roman history -- Roman culture -- Pt. 2: Hebraism -- The chosen people -- Early Christianity -- Pt. 3: The medieval fusion -- The Gothic contribution -- Germanic religion, mythology, and legend -- The height of the Middle Ages -- Pt. 4: The modern spirit -- The Renaissance -- Neo-Classicism -- Rationalism and Romanticism -- German eclecticism (1740-1870): the search for a nation -- Post-Napoleonic the rise of naturalism -- Russia -- Fin de Siè the eve of World War I -- The collapse of between World Wars -- Europe since 1945

500 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1975