Activity introduction:
This book is recommended by He An, an artist who is exhibiting "Coming down" in OCT Box Art Museum. The author Wu Yulin, a professor of history at Wuhan University, wrote a cost book in the 1950s and reprinted it countless times, which has affected several generations. The artist recalls that many people read this book and yearned for Western civilization. Therefore, people embarked on a journey to ancient Greece.
The author wants to outline the outline of the social development of classical slavery in Greece and Rome. The narration, analysis and explanation of characters, systems, wars, changes, social customs and cultural life are interspersed in the book, which adopts the writing method of narration and discussion. Although this 100000 word small book does not include all the knowledge of Greek and Roman history, it can extract the essential parts and enable readers to gain a preliminary understanding of the context of this important historical development.
OCT Box Art Museum's current "toxic in the box (reading)" plan jointly organized a "Go to see ancient Greece together" reading party with 1200 bookshop to read "Ancient Greece and Rome" by world historian Wu Yulin.
Time:
14:30-17:00, November 21, 2021
Address:
Second floor, office of OCT Box Art Museum, Shunde District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province