Full Circle How the Classical World Came Back to Us
Full Circle: How the Classical World Came Back to Us by Ferdinand Mount, published by Simon & Schuster in 2010, explores the striking parallels between contemporary society and the classical world of Greece and Rome. This 438-page book examines various aspects of modern life, including institutions, priorities, and social behaviors, revealing how they mirror those of ancient civilizations. Written in English, the text invites readers to reconsider their understanding of history and its influence on current lifestyles.
In this insightful work, Mount delves into the similarities in our daily habits, from food and entertainment to politics and morality, suggesting that the essence of human experience has remained consistent over centuries. The book encourages a fresh perspective on civilization and social science, highlighting how the legacies of the past continue to shape our present. Through a blend of wit and astuteness, Full Circle presents a thought-provoking examination of how the classical world informs modern existence, prompting readers to reflect on their own lives in relation to history.
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So much about the society that is now emerging in the twenty-first century bears an astonishing resemblance to the most prominent features of what we call the classical world – its institutions, its priorities, its entertainment, its physics, its sexual morality, its food, its politics, even its religion. The ways in which we live our rich and varied lives correspond – almost eerily so – to the ways in which the Greeks and Romans lived theirs. Whether we are eating and drinking, bathing or exercising or making love, pondering, admiring or enquiring, our habits of thought and action, our diversions and concentrations recreate theirs. It is as though the 1500 years after the fall of Rome had been time out from traditional ways of being human.
This eye-opening book makes us look afresh at who we are and how we got here. Full Circleis not only wonderfully witty and brilliantly astute, but also profound and often disquieting. Ferdinand Mount effortlessly peels back 2000 years of history to show how much we are like the ancients, how in ways both trivial and crucial we arethem and they are us.
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