Notes on Greek Classics
Language: English
Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1988
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This sweeping survey of ancient Greek culture covers the greatest works of Greek poets, dramatists, philosophers, writers, and historians. These writings are the foundation of the way we think and act and are important to the student of the human condition.
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- Title
- Notes on Greek Classics
- Author
- Mary Ellen Snodgrass
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0822005662
- ISBN 13
- 9780822005667
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- 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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