Author: Johann Joachim Eschenburg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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Manual of Classical Literature
Author: Johann Joachim Eschenburg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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Classical Literature
Author: Richard Jenkyns
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465097987
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
The writings of the Greeks and Romans form the bedrock of Western culture. Inventing the molds for histories, tragedies, and philosophies, while pioneering radical new forms of epic and poetry, the Greeks and Romans created the literary world we still inhabit today. Writing with verve and insight, distinguished classicist Richard Jenkyns explores a thousand years of classical civilization, carrying readers from the depths of the Greek dark ages through the glittering heights of Rome's empire. Jenkyns begins with Homer and the birth of epic poetry before exploring the hypnotic poetry of Pindar, Sappho, and others from the Greek dark ages. Later, in Athens's classical age, Jenkyns shows the radical nature of Sophocles's choice to portray Ajax as a psychologically wounded warrior, how Aeschylus developed tragedy, and how Herodotus, in "inventing history," brought to narrative an epic and tragic quality. We meet the strikingly modern figure of Virgil, struggling to mirror epic art in an age of empire, and experience the love poems of Catullus, who imbued verse with obsessive passion as never before. Even St. Paul and other early Christian writers are artfully grounded here in their classical literary context. A dynamic and comprehensive introduction to Greek and Roman literature, Jenkyns's Classical Literature is essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the classics -- and the extraordinary origins of Western culture. "There is scarcely anything on which he does not offer an original aperç sometimes illuminating, sometimes simply provocative, but always worth reading... Jenkyns's view of ancient literature is Olympian." -- G.W. Bowersock, The New York Review of Books
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465097987
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
The writings of the Greeks and Romans form the bedrock of Western culture. Inventing the molds for histories, tragedies, and philosophies, while pioneering radical new forms of epic and poetry, the Greeks and Romans created the literary world we still inhabit today. Writing with verve and insight, distinguished classicist Richard Jenkyns explores a thousand years of classical civilization, carrying readers from the depths of the Greek dark ages through the glittering heights of Rome's empire. Jenkyns begins with Homer and the birth of epic poetry before exploring the hypnotic poetry of Pindar, Sappho, and others from the Greek dark ages. Later, in Athens's classical age, Jenkyns shows the radical nature of Sophocles's choice to portray Ajax as a psychologically wounded warrior, how Aeschylus developed tragedy, and how Herodotus, in "inventing history," brought to narrative an epic and tragic quality. We meet the strikingly modern figure of Virgil, struggling to mirror epic art in an age of empire, and experience the love poems of Catullus, who imbued verse with obsessive passion as never before. Even St. Paul and other early Christian writers are artfully grounded here in their classical literary context. A dynamic and comprehensive introduction to Greek and Roman literature, Jenkyns's Classical Literature is essential reading for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the classics -- and the extraordinary origins of Western culture. "There is scarcely anything on which he does not offer an original aperç sometimes illuminating, sometimes simply provocative, but always worth reading... Jenkyns's view of ancient literature is Olympian." -- G.W. Bowersock, The New York Review of Books
Manual of Classical Literature. From the German, with Additions by N. W. Fiske. Third Edition
Author: Johann Joachim ESCHENBURG
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 770
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 770
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Manual of Classical Erotology (De Figuris Veneris)
Author: Friedrich Karl Forberg
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Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Teaching the Classics
Author: Adam & Missy Andrews
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998322919
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN: 9780998322919
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Manual of Classical Literature
Author: Johann Joachim Eschenburg
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 766
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 766
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Manual of Classical Literature
Author: Johann Joachim Eschenburg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 770
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Manual of Classical Literature
Author: Johann Joachim Eschenburg
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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A Compendium of English Literature
Author: Charles Dexter Cleveland
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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Manual of Classical Literature
Author: Johann Joachim Eschenburg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 690
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 690
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