James Hamilton, Author, Charles Freeman, Author . Knopf $30 (464p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4085-8
Freeman repeats an oft-told tale of the rise of Christianity and the supposed demise of philosophy in a book that is fascinating, frustrating and flawed. He contends that as the Christian faith developed in the first four centuries it gradually...
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Charles Freeman, Author Overlook 27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59020-267-8
After Napoleon triumphed over Venice in 1798, he demonstrated his strength by plundering the city-state’s greatest treasures, including a set of four Greek or Roman gilded copper horses (their precise origins are not known) adorning St. Mark’s...
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Charles Freeman, Author Oxford University Press, USA $11.95 (46p) ISBN 978-0-19-521238-9
Cultures from antiquity spring to life in the Spotlights series of info- and picture-packed paper-over-board volumes. In The Ancient Greeks by Charles Freeman, detailed drawings of artifacts, architecture, weaponry, statuary and dozens of other...
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Charles Freeman, Author Viking Books $39.95 (576p) ISBN 978-0-670-88515-2
These are not your grandfather's Greeks, flawless creators of a world where, as Freeman writes, ""the marble is always shining, the streets are clean, and there is a lot of time for passionate philosophical discussions about art, theater, or the...
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Charles Freeman. Knopf, $50 (816p) ISBN 978-0-525-65936-5
Historian Freeman (The Closing of the Western Mind) skillfully plows through substantial ground in this doorstop of an intellectual history of Western Europe. Freeman traces key shifts in intellectual development from the end of the Roman Empire in...
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Charles Freeman. Pegasus, $32 (384p) ISBN 978-1-639-36515-9
Historian Freeman (The Closing of the Western Mind) offers an enlightening survey of the Greek intellectual tradition during the Roman Empire. Often overlooked in favor of classical Athens and its foundational schools of thought, Greek philosophy...
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