Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times Format: Hardcover

Christopher Pelling (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 0199597367 / ISBN 13: 9780199597369

Published by Oxford University Press, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times Format: Hardcover
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199597367
• ISBN 13: 9780199597369
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Twelve of the greatest voices from ancient Greece and Rome--and why they still inspire and affect us in the twenty-first century. A book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization.

About the Author

Christopher Pelling is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford. He has worked and published extensively on Classical Greek historiography and biography. Among his numerous publications are Literary Texts and the Greek Historian and Plutarch and History: Eighteen Studies.

Maria Wyke is Professor of Latin at University College London. She has written extensively on Roman love poetry (collected in The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations), on Julius Caesar (Caesar: A Life in Western Culture and Caesar in the USA), and on ancient Rome in cinema (Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome, Cinema and History).