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Classical bearings : interpreting ancient history and culture /
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 i...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1998.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- I. PRECEDENT, SURVIVAL, METAMORPHOSIS: CLASSICAL INFLUENCES IN THE MODERN WORLD
- II. VICTORIAN HELLAS
- III. LESBOS AND THE GENIUS LOCI
- IV. ON THE THANATOS TRAIL
- V. THE TREASURES OF EGYPT
- VI. DELPHIC RESPONSES
- VII. STREPSIADES, SOCRATES, AND THE ABUSES OF INTELLECTUALISM
- VIII. DOWNTREADING THE DEMOS
- IX. SEX AND CLASSICAL LITERATURE
- X. THE MACEDONIAN CONNECTION
- XI. AFTER ALEXANDER: SOME HISTORIOGRAPHICAL APPROACHES TO THE HELLENISTIC AGE
- XII. CAESAR AND ALEXANDER: AEMULATIO, IMITATIO, COMPARATIO
- XIII. CARMEN ET ERROR: THE ENIGMA OF OVID'S EXILE
- XIV. WIT, SEX AND TOPICALITY: THE PROBLEMS CONFRONTING A TRANSLATOR OF OVID'S LOVE POETRY
- XV. JUVENAL REVISITED
- XVI. MEDIUM AND MESSAGE RECONSIDERED: THE CHANGING FUNCTIONS OF CLASSICAL TRANSLATION
- NOTES AND REFERENCES
- INDEX