Edith Hall, Henry Stead

Broschiertes Buch

A People's History of Classics

Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939

Beschreibung

A Peopleâ s History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the earlier 20th century.

Autor

Edith Hall is Professor of Classics at King's College London, UK and is leader of a campaign to introduce Classical Civilisation and Ancient History qualifications across the UK state-school sector. She has published 30 books on ancient Greek and Roman civilisation and its continuing influence, and in 2015 was awarded the Erasmus Medal of the European Academy. Henry Stead is Lecturer in Latin at the University of St Andrews, UK. His research project 'Brave New Classics' explores the relationship between the Greek and Roman classics and world communism. He is the author of A Cockney Catullus (2015), a translator of Latin poems and co-editor of Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform (2015).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 642
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1262g
• ISBN-13: 9780367432362
• ISBN-10: 0367432366
• Artikelnr.: 58805145