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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 aesthetics to Marxism's losing battle with ancient history. This third volume of Green's essays (several previously unpublished) reveals throughout his serious concern that we are, in a very real sense, losing the legacy of antiquity through the corrosive methodologies of modern academic criticism.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Classical Bearings
• Subtitle: Interpreting Ancient History and Culture
• Author: Peter Green
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328
• EAN: 9780520208117
• ISBN: 0520208110
• ID: 04616211
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 520 g
• Dimensions: 154 × 232 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. June 1998

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