Classical Bearings by Green, Peter

Classical Bearings (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520208117)

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Classical Bearings by Green, Peter

Classical Bearings

$31.95
Classical Bearings by Green, Peter

Classical Bearings

$31.95
Format: Paperback
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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 island of Lesbos (where he once lived) to the challenges of translating Ovid's wit and elegant eroticism into present-day English verse, from Victorian pederastic aesthetics to Marxism's losing battle with ancient history. This third volume of Green's essays (several previously unpublished) reveals throughout his serious concern that we are, in a very real sense, losing the legacy of antiquity through the corrosive methodologies of modern academic criticism.

Author: Peter Green
ISBN-10: 0520208110
ISBN-13: 9780520208117
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 06/25/1998
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.95h x 6.05w x 0.89d
By Peter Green
By Peter Green
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Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Texas, Austin, and currently Visiting Professor of History at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. His other books available from California include a translation of The Argonautika: The Story of Jason and the Quest for the Golden Fleece (1997), Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age (1990), Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography (1991), The Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos (1993), and The Greco-Persian Wars (1996).

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