Music: Antiquity and Its Legacy 9781350193819, 135019381X

"This book explores the pivotal role played by ancient mousike-in all its facets-in the development of musical prac

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Music: Antiquity and Its Legacy
9781350193819, 135019381X

This book explores the pivotal role played by ancient mousike-in all its facets-in the development of musical practices

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Over 2600 years ago the Parian poet Archilochus wrote "we chased seven and killed them.. the thousand of us."

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Personal and yet utterly universal, inevitable and yet unknowable, death has been a dominant theme in all cultures, sinc

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Ancient Greece is famous as the civilization which ‘gave’ the world democracy. Democracy has in modern times become the

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Sex is fundamental to society. We cannot think about politics, power, identity or culture without also thinking about se

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What is a religion? What triggered the spontaneous development of distinct religions throughout the ancient world? How d

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Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' is perhaps the most famous phrase of all in the American Declaration of

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The impulse to try to anticipate the future, and make sense of apparently random events, is irrepressible. Why and how t

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Modern science and its technology are the children of the seventeenth-century. Shedding fresh light on topics such as Eu

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Sex is fundamental to society. We cannot think about politics, power, identity or culture without also thinking about se

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