Classical Bearings

Interpreting Ancient History and Culture

By: Peter Green

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Paperback | 25 June 1998 | Edition Number 1

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In this collection of sixteen literary and historical essays, Peter Green informs, entertains, and stimulates. He covers a wide range of subjects, from Greek attitudes toward death to the mysteries of the Delphic Oracle, from Tutankhamun and the gold of Egypt to sex in ancient literature, from the island of Lesbos (where he once lived) to the challenges of translating Ovid's wit and elegant eroticism into present-day English verse, from Victorian pederastic aesthetics to Marxism's losing battle with ancient history. This third volume of Green's essays (several previously unpublished) reveals throughout his serious concern that we are, in a very real sense, losing the legacy of antiquity through the corrosive methodologies of modern academic criticism.

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"The sixteen beautifully written essays sensitively assess the state of contemporary classical scholarship on Greek society and mores, Hellenistic history, and Latin poetry. A particularly attractive feature of these studies is the author's ability to establish connections between antiquity and the present."--"Choice

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