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59 produkter
Prime of Life
Av Peter Green, Simone de Beauvoir
Häftad, 2024
165 kr
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The second volume in Simone de Beauvoir’s celebrated autobiography recalls her formative years in Paris when she began to emerge as a public figureFirst published in 1960, The Prime of Life offers an intimate, captivating picture of Simone de Beauvoir in her twenties, thirties and forties. …
Alexander to Actium
Av Peter Green
Häftad, 1993
547 kr
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The Hellenistic Age, the three extraordinary centuries from the death of Alexander in 323 B. C. to Octavian's final defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, has offered a rich and variegated field of exploration for historians, philosophers, economists, and literary critics. Yet few …
Greco-Persian Wars
Av Peter Green
Häftad, 1998
290 kr
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This is a reissue, with a new introduction and an update to the bibliography, of the original edition, published in 1970 as The Year of Salamis in England and as Xerxes at Salamis in the U.S. The long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire and the fledgling Greek states reached its …
Alexander of Macedon, 356–323 B.C.
A Historical Biography
Av Peter Green
Häftad, 2013
272 kr
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Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man, sometimes as a brute interest in the exercise …
Andrei Tarkovsky
The Winding Quest
Av Peter Green
Häftad, 1993
569 kr
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A survey of the work of Andrei Tarkovsky, the Russian film-maker who lived from 1932-1986. It is a critical examination of his films in the light of his own writings and life, his aesthetics of film, his theory of time in cinematography and an attempt to comprehend his vision.
From Ikaria to the Stars
Classical Mythification, Ancient and Modern
Av Peter Green
Häftad, 2004
388 kr
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"I hadn't, till I really started digging, gauged the fierce intensity of the need for myth in the human psyche, of any age, or sensed the variety of motives dictating that need," writes Peter Green in the introduction to this wide-ranging collection of essays on classical mythology and the mythic …
Hellenistic History and Culture
Av Peter Green
Häftad, 1996
441 kr
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In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic mosaic. That picture emerges in these essays and eloquently displays the breadth of modern interest in the Hellenistic Age. A …
Laughter of Aphrodite
A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos
Av Peter Green
Häftad, 1995
493 kr
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Best-selling classicist Peter Green recreates the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho in this beautifully conceived, sharply detailed work of historical imagination. We meet Sappho at the age of fifty, when she is shaken by her fatal and final love affair with Phaon. She narrates her own …
Classical Bearings
Interpreting Ancient History and Culture
Av Peter Green
Häftad, 1998
450 kr
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In this collection of sixteen literary and historical essays, Peter Green informs, entertains, and stimulates. He covers a wide range of subjects, from Greek attitudes toward death to the mysteries of the Delphic Oracle, from Tutankhamun and the gold of Egypt to sex in ancient literature, from the …
Shadow of the Parthenon
Studies in Ancient History and Literature
Av Peter Green
Häftad, 2008
334 kr
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A lively combination of scholarship and unorthodoxy makes these studies in ancient history and literature unusually rewarding. Few of the objects of conventional admiration gain much support from Peter Green (Pericles and the "democracy" of fifth-century Athens are treated to a very cool scrutiny) …
Greco-Persian Wars
Av Peter Green
E-bok, 1996
357 kr
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This is a reissue, with a new introduction and an update to the bibliography, of the original edition, published in 1970 as The Year of Salamis in England and as Xerxes at Salamis in the U.S. The long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire and the fledgling Greek states reached its …
Hellenistic History and Culture
Av Peter Green
E-bok, 1993
565 kr
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In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic mosaic. That picture emerges in these essays and eloquently displays the breadth of modern interest in the Hellenistic Age. A …
Laughter of Aphrodite
A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos
Av Peter Green
E-bok, 1993
565 kr
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Best-selling classicist Peter Green recreates the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho in this beautifully conceived, sharply detailed work of historical imagination. We meet Sappho at the age of fifty, when she is shaken by her fatal and final love affair with Phaon. She narrates her own …
Classical Bearings
Interpreting Ancient History and Culture
Av Peter Green
E-bok, 1998
526 kr
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In this collection of sixteen literary and historical essays, Peter Green informs, entertains, and stimulates. He covers a wide range of subjects, from Greek attitudes toward death to the mysteries of the Delphic Oracle, from Tutankhamun and the gold of Egypt to sex in ancient literature, from the …
Shadow of the Parthenon
Studies in Ancient History and Literature
Av Peter Green
E-bok, 2008
618 kr
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A lively combination of scholarship and unorthodoxy makes these studies in ancient history and literature unusually rewarding. Few of the objects of conventional admiration gain much support from Peter Green (Pericles and the "democracy" of fifth-century Athens are treated to a very cool scrutiny) …
Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.
A Historical Biography
Av Peter Green
E-bok, 2013
314 kr
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Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man, sometimes as a brute interest in the exercise …
Hit and Run
Av Peter Green
E-bok, 2006
61 kr
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Frank Vogel has developed a unique line of hair-care products and needs money to grow. When he runs an ad in The New York Times asking for investors, Thomas Harwood replies and agrees to invest three million dollars to get the products into the market.Harwood claims that his money is coming from a …
Alexander The Great And The Hellenistic Age
Av Peter Green
Häftad, 2008
129 kr
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A masterly narrative survey of three centuries, from Alexander's conquest and empire to the triumph of Rome.The book begins with the personality and achievements of Alexander the Great, and continues with the military and political violence of the successor-kingdoms that fought over his …
Problem of Evil
Being an Attempt to Shew That the Existence of sin and Pain in the World is not Inconsistent With the Goodness and Power of God
Av Peter Green
Häftad, 2023
242 kr
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Our Heavenly Father
A Study of the Nature and Doctrine of God
Av Peter Green
Inbunden, 2026
349 kr
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Our Lord and Saviour
A Study of the Person and Doctrine of Jesus Christ
Av Peter Green
Inbunden, 2026
349 kr
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Our Heavenly Father
A Study of the Nature and Doctrine of God
Av Peter Green
Häftad, 2026
196 kr
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Our Lord and Saviour
A Study of the Person and Doctrine of Jesus Christ
Av Peter Green
Häftad, 2026
200 kr
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