Reconstructing western civilization
Subtitle: irreverant essays on antiquity
By: Barbara Sher Tinsley.
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Selinsgrove
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient; Civilization, Classical; Civilization, Christian
Description: "These essays reveal ancient history through a lens ironic, skeptical, playful. While textbooks numb curiosity and stifle humor, Barbara Sher Tinsley humorously confronts the past, encouraging readers to enjoy exploring the tragicomic aspects of men - and women - from Paleolithic through early Christian times. Readers get a chronological account from Gilgamesh to the rise of Christianity. Intolerance and spirituality, science and irrationality, sex and gender, poverty and greed, hold mirrors to a different past than any textbook provides. Here, history is thought provoking, relevant, and often hilarious."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Before civilization; title: Middlemen : the civilizations of Mesopotamia; title: Forever Egypt; title: Our Hebrew heritage; title: Crete and Mycenae; title: Classical Greece; title: Alexander and the Hellenistic world; title: Hellenistic civilization; title: Republican Rome; title: The fall of the Republic : triumphs, tribulations, triumvirates; title: Four fathers and the primitive church.