Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome
Subtitle: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Nov 01, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780199597369
Description: "[This] is a book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underlies much of Western culture. Christopher Pelling and Maria Wyke provide a distinctive introduction to twelve of the greatest authors from ancient Greece and Rome, writers whose voices still resonate strongly across the centuries: Homer, Sappho, Herodotus, Euripides, Thucydides, [Julius] Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Juvenal, Tacitus, and Lucian."--Book jacket.
Notes: Source title: Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times