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Green, Peter

CLASSICAL BEARINGS Interpreting Ancient History and Culture Near Fine

University of California Press, 1998

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Year of publication
1998
Author
Green, Peter
Publishers
University of California Press
Keyword
GREECE ROME GREEK LATIN Classical Greek & Roman Social &, Cultural
Cover description
Near Fine
Binding description
Softcover ISBN 0520208110

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 This third volume of Green's essays (several previously unpublished) reveals throughout his serious concern that we are, in a very real sense, losing the legacy of antiquity through the corrosive methodologies of modern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. ; 328 pages