Twelve voices from Greece and Rome :: ancient ideas for modern times /

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...

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1. Verfasser: Pelling, C. B. R.
Weitere Verfasser: Wyke, Maria
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Ausgabe:First edition.
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Zusammenfassung: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 invest.
Beschreibung:Includes index.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191053641
0191053643
0198768036
9780198768036

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