Ancient and Modern

Past Perspectives on Today's World

By: Peter Jones

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Paperback | 24 June 1999 | Edition Number 1

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First in The Sunday Telegraph, then in The Spectator, Peter Jones has since 1991 been comparing events in the modern world with their counterparts in the ancient. Week by week, he takes a major world event - a sex scandal here, a corruption charge there, a legal move on this page, a medical advance on that - and brings his encyclopaedic knowledge of the ancient Greeks and Romans to speculate how they might have reacted to it.
In Ancient & Modern Peter Jones extracts the most eye-opening of these four hundred columns and stitches them together, by topic, into a continuous narrative.
Sex, marriage, life, death, medicine, the law, science, education, politics, royalty, the arts, religion - all human strife is here.

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The bestselling author of Learn Latin has produced a marvellous reworking of the 400-plus columns he has written for the Spectator over the past ten years, considering modern-day problems through the eyes of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Among the many subjects Jones dips into in the upbeat narrative are bribing politicians, bad behaviour abroad and the (ab)use of alcohol. The author makes no claim to presenting a complete or balanced account of life in the ancient world, but readers will enjoy his verve, style and diverse subject matter nevertheless. A time chart and illustrations are included. (Kirkus UK)

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History European History General & World History Literature, Poetry & Plays Non-Fiction Prose Literary Essays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Classical Literary Studies Earliest Times to Present Day

Ancient History to the Year 500

Preface
Reading list
Sex and marriage, life and death	p. 1
Science, argument and medicine	p. 37
Laws, rights and wrongs	p. 60
Politics and corruption, Europe and the Lords	p. 72
Schools for scandal?	p. 120
Arty-hearties: arts, drama and games	p. 133
The powers above	p. 154
Time chart	p. 169
Maps	p. 174
Index	p. 178
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