Vox Populi: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Classical World but Were Afraid to Ask

by Peter Jones

Overview

In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and fascination of their ideas that makes the Ancient Greeks and Romans so important and influential today. For over 2,000 years these ideas have gripped Western imagination and been instrumental in the way we think about the world. Covering everything from philosophy, history and architecture to language and grammar, Jones uncovers their astonishing intellectual, political and literary achievements.
First published twenty years ago, this fully updated and revised edition is a must-read for anyone who wishes to know more about the classics - and where they came from.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786498939
Publisher:	Atlantic Books
Publication date:	11/07/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Peter Jones was educated at Cambridge University and taught Classics at Cambridge and at Newcastle University, before retiring in 1997. He has written a regular column, 'Ancient & Modern', in the Spectator for many years and is the author of various books on the Classics, including the bestselling Learn Latin and Learn Ancient Greek, as well as Reading Virgil's Aeneid I and II, Vote for Caesar, Veni, Vidi, Vici, Eureka! and Quid Pro Quo.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Maps viii-xi

Timeline xii

Introduction 1

1 Classical Connections: 700 BC to AD 500 14

2 The Survival of Ancient Literature 44

3 Excavating the Past: Ephesus and the Temple of Artemis 78

4 Democracy's Brief Day 108

5 Men on Women 137

6 Emperor and Empire 164

7 The City of Lepcis Magna 188

8 The English Vocabulary 197

9 The Language of Grammar 213

10 Stoics and Epicureans 237

11 Breaking the Ancient Stranglehold 263

Appendix: The Pronunciation of Latin 279

Further Reading 285

Index 291