Classical Bearings
Interpreting Ancient History and Culture
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of California Press
Published:23rd May '98
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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 This third volume of Green's essays (several previously unpublished) reveals throughout his serious concern that we are, in a very real sense, losing the legacy of antiquity through the corrosive methodologies of modern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.
ISBN: 9780520208117
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
Weight: 454g
328 pages