Some Talk of Alexander
by Frederic Raphael
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A personal journey through Greek history, juxtaposed with remarkable images that vividly depict, trace, and reinforce the art and life of the times. Do "the classics" still have relevance at the start of the twenty-first century? Or are they just an outdated repository of class vanity, racial prejudice, and pedantic obscurantism, rooted in abstruse texts and concerned almost entirely with the activities of dead white males in strange costumes? In this wise and witty work, Frederic Raphael show more springs to the defense of a much-maligned but bracingly elitist world. An erudite, wide-ranging, fluent, and original piece of writing, Some Talk of Alexander leads us from the personal experiences of the author in modern Greece into the rich store of Greek civilization: its art, politics, philosophy, mores, warfare, ethics, personal relationships, government, and literature. 106 illustrations. show lessTags
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Frederic Raphael has written twenty novels, as well as many story collections, biographies, screenplays, and translations from ancient Greek and Latin.
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- 2006
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