Twelve voices from Greece and Rome : ancient ideas for modern times / Christopher Pelling and Maria Wyke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pelling, C. B. R., author.

Wyke, Maria, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome is a book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization. Chistopher Pelling and Maria Wyke provide a vibrant and distinctive introduction to twelve of the greatest authors from ancient Greece and Rome, writers whose voices still resonate strongly across the centuries: Homer, Sappho, Herodotus, Euripides, Thucydides, Plato, Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Juvenal and Tacitus. To what vital ideas do these authors give voice? And why are we so often drawn to what they say even in modern times? Twelve Voices invest

Contents:

Homer

Sappho

Herodotus

Thucydides

Euripedes

Caesar

Cicero

Virgil

Horace

Tacitus

Juvenal

Lucian.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780191053658

0191053651

9780198768036

0198768036

9780191053641

0191053643