Christopher Pelling, Maria Wyke

Gebundenes Buch

Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome

Ancient Ideas for Modern Times

Beschreibung

Twelve of the greatest voices from ancient Greece and Rome - and why they still inspire and affect us in the 21st century. A book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization.

Autor

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 (2000) and Plutarch and History: Eighteen Studies (2002). 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, 2002), on Julius Caesar (Caesar: A Life in Western Culture, 2007, and Caesar in the USA, 2012), and on ancient Rome in cinema (Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome, Cinema and History, 1997).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 141mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9780199597369
• ISBN-10: 0199597367
• Artikelnr.: 41079216