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Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient History and Culture

By Peter Green

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9780520918825
DOI
10.1525/9780520918825
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19877717 bytes)
Edition
Reprint 2019
Pages
328\329
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 17:11:17

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 This third volume of Green's essays (several previously unpublished) reveals throughout his serious concern that we are, in a very real sense, losing the legacy of antiquity through the corrosive methodologies of modern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.

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