Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient History and Culture
by Peter Green
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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 ae.Tags
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Peter Green is Dougherty Centennial Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin and Adjunct Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa. He is the author of many books and translations, including Alexander to Actium, the poems of Catullus, and Apollonios Rhodios's The Argonautika, all published by UC Press.
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 938 — History & geography History of ancient world (to ca. 499) Greece to 323
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- DE59 .G74 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Greco-Roman World History of the Greco-Roman world Antiquities. Civilization. Culture. Ethnography
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