Inventing Ancient Culture

<p>Inventing Ancient Culture discusses aspects of antiquity which we have tended to ignore. It asks the reader how far we have reinvented antiquity by applying modern concepts and understandings to its study. Furthermore it challenges the common notion that perceptions of the self of modern societal and institutional structures originated in the Enlightenment. Rather the authors and contributors argue there are many continuities and marked similarities between the classical and the modern world. Mark Golden and Peter Toohey have assembled a lively cast of contributors who analyse and argue about classical culture its understandings of philosophy friendship the human body sexuality and historiography</p>