Reading Greek: A World of Heroes
Subtitle: Selections from Homer, Herodotus and Sophocles (Reading Greek)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 30, 1979
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780521224628
Subjects: Language teaching & learning material & coursework; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Greek language; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language; Readers; Ancient Languages - Classical Greek; Ancient and Classical; General; Foreign Language Study / Ancient Languages; Greek language--Readers
First sentence: 'Homer' suggests an answer which the maiden singers of Delos should give when they are asked who is the sweetest singer of all: 'He is a blind man, and lives in rocky Chios; The best songs are all of his, for all time.'