24小时漫步古代城市系列：古希腊（平装） 24 Hours in Ancient Athens : A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

基本信息

Series:24 Hours in Ancient History

Format:Paperback / softback 272 pages, b/w line drawings

Publisher:Michael O'Mara Books Ltd

Imprint:Michael O'Mara Books Ltd

ISBN:9781789293500

Published:2 Sep 2021

Weight:246g

Dimensions:152 x 204 x 22 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

与古代雅典人共度 24 小时。通过雅典人的视角来了解这座城市，它正徘徊在终结其黄金时代的宿命之战的边缘。

公元前 416 年，雅典。脆弱的和平得以维持。雅典城邦的政治和军事实力令整个古代世界闻风丧胆；在这个时代，雅典人均拥有的天才比人类历史上任何其他时期都要多，雅典在社会、文学和哲学实验方面不断推陈出新。然而，即使是天才也会去洗手间，与配偶争吵，与朋友喝酒。

雅典的其他居民很少能享受到这样一个文明社会所带来的好处--虽然雅典是一个多元文化和进步的城市，但许多人却被禁止成为雅典人。不，对于普通人来说，生活就是维持生计，无论是卖鱼、看守神庙还是走私利润丰厚的希腊无花果。

在一天的时间里，我们遇到了来自社会各个阶层的 24 位雅典人--从奴隶到议员，从花瓶画家到海军司令，从家庭主妇到跳马兵--通过与他们相处的一个小时，我们了解了真实的雅典。我们每一章都会遇到不同的人物，每一章都是古城生活的一个小时。我们还可以通过普通人的视角，窥探雅典人的日常活动，因为这座城市正徘徊在致命战争的边缘，而这场战争将摧毁它的黄金时代。

Spend 24 hours with the ancient Athenians. See the city through their eyes as it teeters on the edge of the fateful war that would end its golden age.

Athens, 416 BC. A tenuous peace holds. The city-state's political and army might are feared throughout the ancient world; it pushes the boundaries of social, literary and philosophical experimentation in an era when it has a greater concentration of geniuses per capita than at any other time in human history. Yet even geniuses go to the bathroom, argue with their spouse and enjoy a drink with friends.

Few of the city's other inhabitants enjoy the benefits of such a civilized society, though - as multicultural and progressive as Athens can be, many are barred from citizenship. No, for the average person, life is about making ends meet, whether that be selling fish, guarding the temple or smuggling lucrative Greek figs.

During the course of a day we meet 24 Athenians from all strata of society - from the slave-girl to the councilman, the vase painter to the naval commander, the housewife to the hoplite - and get to know what the real Athens was like by spending an hour in their company. We encounter a different one of these characters every chapter, with each chapter forming an hour in the life of the ancient city. We also get to spy on the daily doings of notable Athenians through the eyes of regular people as the city hovers on the brink of the fateful war that will destroy its golden age.

作者简介

过去 30 年来，古代史一直是我的工作和爱好。我花了很多时间沉浸在古代世界中，每当我想到一个故事或一个想法，想与世界上其他人分享时，我就会把它写下来。

在其他时候，如果我想了解一些信息，但又没有现成的书可以提供，我也会写这本书。我的一些学生（我也教书）以前从未接触过古代世界。那是一个迷人的地方，就像任何另类宇宙一样与众不同，但又真实存在。探索那里总是让我兴奋不已，总有新的发现。

在不同时期，我曾在三大洲生活过，并在意大利度过了几年美好时光，就生活在我写作的素材之上。现在我在加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省的深山中安家，但我的一部分仍在罗马，潜伏在古罗马广场的阴影中。

Ancient history has been my job and my hobby for the last 30 years. I spend a lot of time immersed in the world of antiquity, and whenever I come up a story or an idea that I would like to share with the rest of the world I write about it.

At other times, when there's some information I want, and there's no readily available book that offers this, I write that book too. Some of my students (I also teach) have never before been introduced to the ancient world. It's a fascinating place, as different as any alternative universe, but real. I always get excited by exploring there, and there's always something new to find.

At various times, I've lived on three different continents, and spent several wonderful years in Italy living right on top of the material I was writing about. I'm now in Canada with a home deep in the mountains of British Columbia, but there's a part of me that is still in Rome lurking in the shadows of the ancient forum.