CLASSICAL BEARINGS Interpreting Ancient History and Culture
by Green, Peter
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 050025107X
- ISBN 13
- 9780500251072
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Thames and Hudson. Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 050025107X . Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Scholar's name to ffep in pen (G. P. Goold). Very Minor shelfwear to DJ. ; 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 This third volume of Green's essays (several previously unpublished) reveals throughout his serious concern that we are, in a very real sense, losing the legacy of antiquity through the corrosive methodologies of modern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. ; 328 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Ancient World Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33292
- Title
- CLASSICAL BEARINGS Interpreting Ancient History and Culture
- Author
- Green, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 050025107X
- ISBN 13
- 9780500251072
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- 050025107X, Greek History, Social & Cultural, Classical Greek & Roman, Historiography
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