The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought presents an authoritative, coherent and wide-ranging guide to the afterlife of Greco-Roman antiquity in later Western cultures and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of large aspects of Western culture as a whole from a classical perspective. • Features a unique combination of chronological range, cultural scope, coherent argument, and unified analysis • Written in a lively, engaging, and elegant manner • Presents an innovative overview of the afterlife of antiquity • Crosses disciplinary boundaries to make new sense of a rich variety of material, rarely brought together • Fully illustrated with a mix of color and black & white images
