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Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times
Christopher Pelling
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Description for Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times
Hardback. Twelve of the greatest voices from ancient Greece and Rome - and why they still inspire and affect us in the 21st century. A book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome is a book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization. Chistopher Pelling and Maria Wyke provide a vibrant and distinctive introduction to twelve of the greatest authors from ancient Greece and Rome, writers whose voices still resonate strongly across the centuries: Homer, Sappho, Herodotus, Euripides, Thucydides, Plato, Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Juvenal and Tacitus. To what vital ideas do these authors give voice? And why are we so often drawn to what they say even in modern times? Twelve Voices investigates these tantalizing questions, ... Read more
Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome is a book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization. Chistopher Pelling and Maria Wyke provide a vibrant and distinctive introduction to twelve of the greatest authors from ancient Greece and Rome, writers whose voices still resonate strongly across the centuries: Homer, Sappho, Herodotus, Euripides, Thucydides, Plato, Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Juvenal and Tacitus. To what vital ideas do these authors give voice? And why are we so often drawn to what they say even in modern times? Twelve Voices investigates these tantalizing questions, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
453g
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199597369
SKU
V9780199597369
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Ref
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About Christopher Pelling
Christopher Pelling is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford. He has worked and published extensively on Classical Greek historiography and biography. Among his numerous publications are Literary Texts and the Greek Historian (2000) and Plutarch and History: Eighteen Studies (2002). Maria Wyke is Professor of Latin at University College London. She has written ... Read more
Reviews for Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times
Elegant and easy to read.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Pelling and Wyke offer a rich farrago of literary interpretation, historical background, personal reminiscence and Nachleben... a lively and thought-provoking foray
Times Literary Supplement
...it is the 'voices', both of the texts under discussion and the scholars engaging with them, that make this a lively and thought-provokig ... Read more
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Pelling and Wyke offer a rich farrago of literary interpretation, historical background, personal reminiscence and Nachleben... a lively and thought-provoking foray
Times Literary Supplement
...it is the 'voices', both of the texts under discussion and the scholars engaging with them, that make this a lively and thought-provokig ... Read more