| Classical Bearings Contributor(s): Green, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520208110 ISBN-13: 9780520208117 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $31.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1998 Annotation: In a collection of sixteen literary and historical essays, classics scholar Peter Green covers a wide range of subjects--from the mysteries of the Delphic Oracle to Victorian pederasty--and reveals his serious concern that we are losing the legacy of antiquity through the corrosive methodologies of modern academic criticism. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Greece |
| Dewey: 938 |
| LCCN: 97043720 |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6.05" W x 8.95" (1.00 lbs) 328 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 This third volume of Green's essays (several previously unpublished) reveals throughout his serious concern that we are, in a very real sense, losing the legacy of antiquity through the corrosive methodologies of modern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. |
