Cliffs Notes on Greek Classics
Language: English
Published by Cliffs Notes, Inc., Lincoln, NE, 1988
- Softcover
- Used
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429 pp. Light rubbing to the cover edges. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean.
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- Title
- Cliffs Notes on Greek Classics
- Author
- Snodgrass, Mary Ellen
- Publisher
- Cliffs Notes, Inc., Lincoln, NE
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0822005662
- ISBN 13
- 9780822005667
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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From the Back Cover
- Use for concise overviews of Greek playwrights, poets, prose writers, historians and philosophers.
- Find term paper ideas and essay topics.
- Check facts, dates, spelling and pronunciation.
- Identify major Greek literary movements.
- Understand the origins of Western drama.
- Discover the genesis of such ideas as the Oedipus Complex, the Golden Mean, the Golden Fleece, the Trojan Horse, the Socratic Method and Platonic Love.
- Recognize literary allusions to people and events such as the Olympic Games, the Bronze Age, the Fates, Medea, Electra and the Muses.
- Comprehend, through example, such literary terms as medias res, hubris and nemesis.
- Place Greek authors in historical context and chronological relationship to one another.
- Review major events of Greek civil wars as discussed by such writers as Herodotus, Xenophon and Thucydides.
- Recognize the roots of Western thought and philosophy in such writers as Plato, Aristotle and Socrates.
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