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Oldest Dead White European Males
And Other Reflections On the Classics
Häftad, 1994
236 kr
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Should the ancient Greeks—"the oldest dead white European males"—be kept alive in our collective memory? Why study them at all if, by passing their destructive ideas to the Romans and eventually to the rest of Europe, they may ultimately be responsible for much of what’s wrong with American …
Backing into the Future
The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal
Häftad, 1994
361 kr
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"Prospective readers puzzled by the somewhat enigmatic title Backing into the Future may well come to the conclusion that it is a reference to the amusing film produced in 1985, called Back to the Future. But in fact the source of the title is much older. The phrase is based on a number of …
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 1, Early Greek Poetry
Av P. E. Easterling, P. E. Easterling m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
973 kr
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The period from the eighth to the fifth centuries B.C. was one of extraordinary creativity in the Greek-speaking world. Poetry was a public and popular medium, and its production was closely related to developments in contemporary society. At the time when the city states were acquiring their …
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 2, Greek Drama
Av P. E. Easterling, P. E. Easterling m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
710 kr
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This series provides individual textbooks on early Greek poetry, on Greek drama, on philosophy, history and oratory, and on the literature of the Hellenistic period and of the Empire. A chapter on books and readers in the Greek world concludes Part IV. Each part has its own appendix of authors and …
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Volume 1, Greek Literature, Part 3, Philosophy, History and Oratory
Av P. E. Easterling, Bernard M. W. Knox
Häftad, 1989
935 kr
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This volume ranges in time over a very long period and covers the Greeks' most original contributions to intellectual history. It begins and ends with philosophy, but it also includes major sections on historiography and oratory. Although each of these areas had functions which in the modern world …
Norton Book of Classical Literature
Inbunden, 1993
428 kr
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An anthology of classical literature features more than three hundred selections, including pieces on the origins of the Greek language, worksby Homer, discussion on the fall of Rome and St. Augustine, and more.
