TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones,Peter 
TI  - VOX POPULI : Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Classical World But Were Afraid to Ask
SN  - 9781786498946
U1  - 938 
PY  - 2020////01/01
CY  - London
PB  - Atlantic Books
KW  - Civilization, Classical
KW  - Civilization, Classical -- Influence
KW  - Greece -- History
KW  - Rome -- History
KW  - Rome (Empire)
N1  - 	
In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and fascination of their ideas that makes the Ancient Greeks and Romans so important and influential today. For over 2,000 years these ideas have gripped Western imagination and been instrumental in the way we think about the world. Covering everything from philosophy, history and architecture to language and grammar, Jones uncovers their astonishing intellectual, political and literary achievements; 	0: Introduction 1: Classical Connections: 700 bc to ad 500 2: The Survival of Ancient Literature 3: Excavating the Past: Ephesus and the Temple of Artemis 4: Democracy's Brief Day 5: Men on Women 6: Emperor and Empire 7: The City of Lepcis Magna 8: The English Vocabulary 9: The Language of Grammar 10: Stoics and Epicureans 11: Breaking the Ancient Stranglehold
ER  -