Ancient Greek sculpture seems to have a timeless quality provoking reactions that may range from awe to alienation. Yet it was a particular product of its age: and to know how and why it was once crea
The Etruscans were the most powerful force in central Italy until Roman unification of the peninsula. Vestiges of their art, architecture, and unique language have long intrigued scholars, and the se
The starting-point for everything we understand about philosophy, science, literature and art, the world of ancient Greece and Rome makes an extraordinary story in its own right. This book brings Gree
Most of us would like to know the Greek myths better than we do, and in this book Cambridge academic and BBC presenter Nigel Spivey re-tells the Greek myths as the spellbinding stories they are.
a set of lively, racy, dramatic versions of the great myths, which, in a multicultural society, are recognized more than ever as stories without equal. Most of us would like to know the Greek myths
The word 'athletics' is derived from the Greek verb 'to struggle for a prize'. After reading this book, no one will see the Olympics as a graceful display of Greek beauty again, but as war by other me
The series offers authoritative, yet accessible surveys, each volume focusing on a region's art, a particular period or style of Western art, or a major figure. This account includes consideration of
Nigel Spivey takes on one of the greatest taboos in Western culture in this brilliantly original work of cultural history: why is so much pain depicted in the art of the West? Beginning with a meditat
This imaginative approach to the era in which Western civilization was born is a thorough—and thoroughly accessible—synthesis of the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan worlds, spanning the period from Late Ge
The well known scholar of classical art, Nigel Spivey (Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK) and Squire (Trinity College, Cambridge) have written a thematic account of the classical world that provides the
