Classical bearings : interpreting ancient history and culture / Peter Green
1989, First Edition. Berkeley : University of California Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #394462
Physical description; 328 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-313) and indexes. Contents; Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- I. PRECEDENT, SURVIVAL, METAMORPHOSIS: CLASSICAL INFLUENCES IN THE MODERN WORLD -- II. VICTORIAN HELLAS -- III. LESBOS AND THE GENIUS LOCI -- IV. ON THE THANATOS TRAIL -- V. THE TREASURES OF EGYPT -- VI. DELPHIC RESPONSES -- VII. STREPSIADES, SOCRATES, AND THE ABUSES OF INTELLECTUALISM -- VIII. DOWNTREADING THE DEMOS -- IX. SEX AND CLASSICAL LITERATURE -- X. THE MACEDONIAN CONNECTION -- XI. AFTER ALEXANDER: SOME HISTORIOGRAPHICAL APPROACHES TO THE HELLENISTIC AGE -- XII. CAESAR AND ALEXANDER: AEMULATIO, IMITATIO, COMPARATIO XIII. CARMEN ET ERROR: THE ENIGMA OF OVID'S EXILE -- XIV. WIT, SEX AND TOPICALITY: THE PROBLEMS CONFRONTING A TRANSLATOR OF OVID'S LOVE POETRY -- XV. JUVENAL REVISITED -- XVI. MEDIUM AND MESSAGE RECONSIDERED: THE CHANGING FUNCTIONS OF CLASSICAL TRANSLATION -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- INDEX. Subjects; Civilization, Classical. Civilization, Ancient. HISTORY / Ancient / General.
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