Glass

The Classical Tradition’s catalogue of contributors is a 'who’s who' of classical scholarship and includes some of the best known scholars writing for an educated non-specialist public. This entry on Glass is part of a magnificent compendium that explicates the outsized influence Greek and Roman society, literature and myth has had on the medieval and modern European ages that followed. How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus’s sirens to an ambulance’s? 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 articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science. Arranged alphabetically from Academy to Zoology, the essays—designed and written to serve scholars, students, and the general reader alike—show how the Classical tradition has shaped human endeavors from art to government, mathematics to medicine, drama to urban planning, legal theory to popular culture.