Classical Bearings
Subtitle: Interpreting Ancient History and Culture
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: January 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780500251072
Subjects: Ancient Egypt - History; Architecture; History: American; Ancient - Greece; General; Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Civilization, Classical
First sentence: WHAT WE HOPEFULLY LABEL the 'classical heritage' is, ultimately, a phenomenon as elusive as Lewis Carroll's Snark - liable to turn into a Boojum when cornered - and as mutable as Proteus, the original Old Man of the Sea.