Classics in Progress Essays on Ancient Greece and Rome |
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| Editor:
| Wiseman, T. P. |
| Series title: | British Academy Centenary Monographs |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-726323-5 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2005 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $69.95AUD $94.95 |
Book Description:
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This intriguing collection of essays by contemporary classicists reveals new discoveries, new interpretations and new ways of exploring the experiences of the ancient world. Offering a wide variety of authorial style, the chapters range in subject matter from contemporary poets' exploitation of Greek and Latin authors, via newly discovered literary texts and art works, to modern arguments about ancient democracy and slavery, and close readings of the great poets and philosophers of antiquity.
This intriguing collection of essays by contemporary classicists reveals new discoveries, new interpretations and new ways of exploring the experiences of the ancient world. Offering a wide variety of authorial style, the chapters range in subject matter from contemporary poets' exploitation of Greek and Latin authors, via newly discovered literary texts and art works, to modern arguments about ancient democracy and slavery, and close readings of the great poets and philosophers of antiquity.