Green, Peter: Classical Bearings

Interpreting Ancient History and Culture. These 16 literary and historical essays cover 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. The text reveals the author's concern that we are losing the legacy of antiquity through corrosive methodologies of modern academic criticism. 328 Seiten, broschiert (University of California Press 1998) textsauber, mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren/clean text pages, minor traces of use

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