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Modern America and ancient Rome : an essay in historical comparison and analogy /
"Parallels between ancient Rome and modern America have been drawn before, but never like this. Professor Kiessling compares the ancient Greeks and the Romans, and he compares them to the modern Americans and Europeans. Subjects include levels of commitment to religion, responsiveness to post-h...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Algora Publishing,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introductory reflections on the philosophy of history and Oswald Spengler's morphological theory of the high cultural formations
- The four basic stages of ancient and occidental history
- Hellenistic culture, philosophy and art : apoliticism, private aspiration and self-realization
- The degradation of the polis
- European mentalities of the post-imperialist age
- Pan-Hellenism, pan-Europeanism and supra-nationalism
- How the Greeks saw the Romans, and Europeans see the Americans
- How the Romans saw the Greeks, and Americans see the Europeans
- American puritanism and Roman religiousness
- Radical ideology and utopian vision
- Ancestral lands, mobility and depopulation
- Reluctant hegemons
- Present-day America and late Republican Rome.