The future of the 'classical'
By: by Salvatore Settis ; translated by Allan Cameron.
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780745635996; 9780745635997; 9780745635989
Subjects: Classical philology -- Study and teaching.; Civilization, Classical -- Study and teaching.
Work titles: Futuro del "classico".
Description: "In this new book, Salvatore Settis traces the ways in which we have related to our 'classical' past, starting with post-modern American skyscrapers and working his way back through our cultural history to the attitudes of the Greeks and Romans themselves. Settis argues that this obsession with cultural decay, ruins and a 'classical' past is specifically European and the product of a collective cultural trauma following the collapse of the Roman Empire."--Jacket.
Notes: "Published with the financial assistance of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [114]-128) and index.

Translated from the Italian.