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Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece de Robin Waterfield

Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece

Autor Robin Waterfield
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 iul 2020

În cadrul programelor de studii de istorie antică, Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens se poziționează ca o resursă fundamentală care depășește simpla cronologie a evenimentelor. Considerăm că această lucrare a lui Robin Waterfield reușește să sintetizeze complexitatea civilizației elene dintr-o perspectivă care echilibrează rigoarea academică cu accesibilitatea narativă. Autorul nu se limitează la epoca de aur a Atenei, ci acordă o atenție egală și perioadelor mai puțin explorate în manualele standard, precum epoca arhaică și cea elenistică, până la căderea ultimelor regate greco-macedonene în fața Romei în anul 30 î.Hr.

Subliniem modul în care textul explorează paradoxul identității grecești: deși uniți prin limbă, religie și obiceiuri, grecii au fost definiți de competiție și războaie fratricide. Cititorii familiarizați cu The Ancient Greeks de Matthew Dillon vor aprecia aici abordarea unitară, într-un singur volum, care integrează date arheologice recente pentru a chestiona dovezile istorice tradiționale. Spre deosebire de alte introduceri concise, volumul de față oferă o analiză profundă a instituțiilor politice și a vieții cotidiene, susținută de hărți și ilustrații care facilitează înțelegerea contextului geografic și material.

Această lucrare reprezintă o evoluție firească în cariera lui Robin Waterfield, cunoscut pentru traducerile sale din autori clasici precum The Histories de Herodot sau lucrări de Polybius. Dacă în traducerile sale anterioare Robin Waterfield a oferit vocea directă a anticilor, în Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens el își asumă rolul de interpret critic, sintetizând secole de istorie pentru a oferi o imagine completă a modului în care cetățenii greci au modelat lumea mediteraneeană.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198853121
ISBN-10: 0198853122
Pagini: 544
Ilustrații: Approx. 30 halftones and 10 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 140 x 220 x 45 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm acest volum studenților la istorie și pasionaților de antichitate care caută o perspectivă modernă, actualizată conform ultimelor descoperiri arheologice. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere clară a tranziției de la cetatea-stat la regatele elenistice, primind un instrument critic de analiză a surselor istorice, totul într-un format de tip paperback, ușor de parcurs, dar dens în informații factuale și analize culturale profunde.

Despre autor

Robin Waterfield este un distins istoric și traducător britanic, stabilit în prezent în Grecia, fapt care îi conferă o legătură personală cu spațiul studiat. Cariera sa îmbină mediul academic cu cel editorial, fiind recunoscut la nivel internațional pentru traducerile sale din greaca veche ale operelor lui Platon, Aristotel și Plutarh. Expertiza sa în textele clasice, vizibilă și în edițiile sale pentru The Histories, îi permite să analizeze sursele primare cu o acuratețe rară, transformând Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens într-o lucrare de referință pentru studiul civilizației elene.

Descriere

'WE GREEKS ARE ONE IN BLOOD AND ONE IN LANGUAGE; WE HAVE TEMPLES TO THE GODS AND RELIGIOUS RITES IN COMMON, AND A COMMON WAY OF LIFE.' So the fifth-century historian Herodotus has the Athenians declare, in explanation of why they would never betray their fellow Greeks to their 'barbarian' Persian enemy. And he could easily have added other common features to this list, such as clothing, culinary traditions, and political institutions. But if the Greeks understood their kinship to one another, why did so many of them fight for the invading Persians? And why, more generally, is ancient Greek history so often one of internecine wars and other, less violent forms of competition? This extraordinary contradiction is the central theme of Robin Waterfield's magisterial new history of ancient Greece. From their emergence in the Mediterranean around 750 BCE to the Roman conquest of the last of the Greco-Macedonian kingdoms in 30 BCE, this is the complete story of the ancient Greeks. Equal weight is given to all eras of Greek history-the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods-and to the celebrated figures who shaped it, from Solon and Pericles to Alexander and Cleopatra. In addition, by incorporating the most recent scholarship in classical history and archaeology, the book provides fascinating insights into Greek law, religion, philosophy, drama, and the role of women and slaves in ancient Greek society. A brilliant account of a remarkable civilization, Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens presents a comprehensive and compelling portrait of the perennial paradox of ancient Greece: political disunity combined with underlying cultural solidarity.

Recenzii

Waterfield's book is a pleasure to read: his prose is lively, entertaining, humane, and well researched, and contains a wealth of detail for both student and educator. This work could provide a valuable central text for a college-level Greek history course
Compact and comprehensive.... A very readable political history of ancient Greece, while also providing chapters on Greek religion, literature, social constructs, and arts.
A highly readable and stimulating introduction to a fascinating area of history. Waterfield's accessible but still authoritative tone brings the sights, sounds and citizens vividly to life. This evocative book manages to tread an often fine line between storytelling and scholarly history with a lightness of touch that belies the depth and scope of its approach ... This engaging one-volume history will appeal to a great many readers.
'Superlative. . . . The scholarship is thorough, deep, and well-explained. . . . Readers looking for an authoritative account of almost any aspect of ancient Greek history should be thoroughly gratified.'
'Judicious, reliable, compendious, limpidly clear, and based on immense research in the primary sources, Waterfield's fresh new history of ancient Greece will be the go-to resource for those seeking a panoptic, periscopic vision of one of the past's most fertile cultures.'
'In a clear, engaging style, Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens gives us the grand sweep of the ancient Greeks' 700-year history- from tiny but vibrant city-states, to great empires encompassing the Middle East, and ultimately their violent conquest by the even greater Roman Empire. For everyone interested in this extraordinary story, this is now the place to start.'
'Engaging but rigorously researched narrative history. All you ever needed to know about the Greeks.'
'Waterfield's tone is suitably authoritative and measured... his book is enlivened by its detail.'
'Drawing on contemporary literature and inscriptions, informed by the most up-to-date archaeology, illustrated throughout with half-tone photographs and containing an excellent timeline (from 1200 to 27 BC), lists of rulers (of Ptolemaic Egypt, Macedon from the fourth century, Pergamum, Persia, Syracuse and Seleucid Syria), fifteen maps and a glossary, this book provides an invaluable resource for anyone wishing a comprehensive account of Greek history and culture, while reading lists point the way for those who wish to find out more. W's masterly review of how tensions between cultural unity and political disunity unfolded over eight hundred years is to be thoroughly recommended.'
'Creators, Conquerors, & Citizens is [...] a highly readable and stimulating introduction to a fascinating [...] area of history. Waterfield's accessible but still authoritative tone brings the sights, sounds and citizens vividly to life. This evocative book manages to tread an often fine line between storytelling and scholarly history with a lightness of touch that belies the depth and scope of its approach. There is much to enjoy here and this engaging one-volume history will appeal to a great many readers, regardless of how much they already know about this history of Ancient Greece.'
'With more information, more engagingly presented, than any similar work, this is the best single-volume account of ancient Greece in more than a generation ... A brilliant, up-to-date account of ancient Greece, suitable for history buffs and university students alike, Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens presents a compelling and comprehensive story of this remarkable civilization's disunity, underlying cultural solidarity, and eventual political unification.'
'As one might expect, the scholarship is impeccable. Waterfield touches on a staggering array of topics, succinctly reviewing the evidence and summarizing the most recent scholarly work.'
As readily seen, this volume proves itself extremely useful when studying the history of Ancient Greece, proper of being used as a companion for higher education students starting on the subject. To this end, the maps, chronology, glossary, and brief but up-to-date bibliography that make up this book are of great use. To this extent, it is with no hesitation that we recommend translating this volume into Portuguese.
Creators, Conquerors, Citizens largely succeeds in Waterfield's attempt 'to provide an engaging, accessible, and up-to-date history of the ancient Greeks'.

Notă biografică

Robin Waterfield is an independent scholar, living in southern Greece. In addition to more than twenty-five translations of works of Greek literature, he is the author of numerous books, most recently Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire (2011) and Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece (2014), also published by Oxford University Press.