Classics in Progress: Essays on Ancient Greece and Rome

ISBN-13: 9780197263235 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 468 str.

T. P. Wiseman

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Anyone who questions whether there remains value in studying ancient Greeks and Romans need only consult almost any page of this volume to find a discipline that, far from dead, is kicking and scratching as it continues to grow.