The term "classical" is used to describe everything from the poems of Homer to entire periods of Greek and Roman antiquity. But just how did the concept evolve?
Thoroughly updated and revised, the second edition of this successful and widely praised textbook offers an account of the ‘classical’ period of Greek histo
The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred
Historians working in the classical liberal tradition believe that individual decision-making and individual rights matter in the making of history. History wri
An award-winning scholar and leading authority on American symphonic culture argues that classical music in the United States is peculiarly performance-driven,