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  • Pindar

    Serier serie Understanding Classics
    The 6th/5th century BCE Greek melic (or songwriting) poet Pindar was one of the most celebrated lyricists of antiquity. His famous victory odes offer a paean to the heroic athlete, and collectively are an attempt to encapsulate, through choral songs of exaltation, the glory of the sportsman's moment of victory - whether in athletics or horse-racing - at a variety of Panhellenic festivals and ... Læs mere

    237,73 kr.

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  • Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea

    Why the Greeks Matter

    af Thomas Cahill ...
    Serier serie The Hinges of History
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on a journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago.“A triumph of popularization: extraordinarily knowledgeable, informal in tone, amusing, wide ranging, smartly paced.” —The New York Times Book Review**In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and ... Læs mere

    50,91 kr.

  • The Natural History Of Religion (Mobi Classics)

    af David Hume ...
    Four Dissertations is a collection of four essays by the Scottish enlightenment philosopher David Hume, first published in 1757. The four essays are:The Natural History of Religion Of the Passions Of Tragedy Of the Standard of Taste Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Læs mere

    7,94 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho

    af Sappho ...
    Oversat af Aaron Poochigian ...
    'We hear the voice of a great and enduring poet in our ear again' Carol Ann Duffy'Go, girls, pursue the violet Muses' brightGifts and the plangent lyre, lover of hymns'By turns subversive, erotic and poignant, Sappho is one of the most versatile and exquisite poets in Classical literature. Invoking female deities, Sappho summons the Muses for inspiration and beseeches Aphrodite's allegiance in a ... Læs mere

    77,41 kr.

  • The Consolation of Philosophy

    Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. THE CONSOLATION was written in the period leading up to his brutal execution. It is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his 'nurse' ... Læs mere

    86,02 kr.

  • The Complete Poems of Sappho

    Redigeret af Willis Barnstone ...
    A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet—with a wealth of materials for understanding her work—by a prize-winning poet and translatorSappho’s thrilling lyric verse has been unremittingly popular for more than 2,600 years—certainly a record for poetry of any kind—and love for her art only increases as time goes on. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of ... Læs mere

    122,74 kr.

  • The Bacchae and Other Plays

    af Euripides ...
    Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. Phoenician Women portrays the rival sons of King Oedipus and their mother's doomed attempts at reconciliation, while Orestes shows a son ravaged with guilt after the vengeful murder of his mother. In the Bacchae, ... Læs mere

    86,02 kr.

  • The Consolation of Philosophy

    Serier serie Oxford World's Classics
    Boethius composed the De Consolatione Philosophiae in the sixth century AD whilst awaiting death under torture, condemned on a charge of treason which he protested was manifestly unjust. Though a convinced Christian, in detailing the true end of life which is the soul's knowledge of God, he consoled himself not with Christian precepts but with the tenets of Greek philosophy. This work dominated ... Læs mere

    80,10 kr.

  • It's All Greek To Me

    From Homer to the Hippocratic Oath, How Ancient Greece Has Shaped Our World

    A lively look at the influence of Ancient Greece on contemporary culture—"A primer, lavish lecture and love song" ( Kirkus Reviews).Why is ancient Greece important? Because, quite simply, if we want to understand the modern Western world, we need to look back to the Greeks. Consider the way we think about ethics, about the nature of beauty and truth, about our place in the universe, about our ... Læs mere

    84,61 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Exploring Greek Myth

    af Matthew Clark ...
    Exploring Greek Myth offers an extensive discussion of variant forms of myths and lesser-known stories, including important local myths and local versions of PanHellenic myths. Clark also discusses approaches to understanding myths, allowing students to gain an appreciation of the variety in one volume.Guides students from an introductory understanding of myths to a wide-ranging exploration of ... Læs mere

    265,49 kr.

  • Enchiridion (Best Navigation, Free AudioBook) (A to Z Classics)

    af Epictetus ...
    With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature. Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) and in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook. Although he was born into slavery and endured a permanent physical disability, Epictetus (ca. 50–ca. 130 AD) maintained that all people are free to control their lives and to live in harmony with nature. We will ... Læs mere

    8,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Myths Of The Greeks And Romans

    af Michael Grant ...
    Myths of the Greeks and Romans is an essential guide to ancient literatureThe myths told by the Greeks and Romans are as important as their history for our understanding of what they believed, thought and felt, and of what they expressed in writing and visual art. Mythology was inextricably interwoven with the entire fabric of their public and private lives.This book discusses not only the purely ... Læs mere

    88,11 kr.