Classical Indiscretions
Subtitle: A Millennial Enquiry into the Status of the Classics
Publisher: Duckworth Publishers
Published: August 20, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780715629703
Subjects: Cultural studies; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Classical Literature; Theory Of Literature; Literary Criticism; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Latin; Literature: Classics; Books & Reading; Literary Collections / Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Ancient and Classical
First sentence: These questions were posed by the Roman philosopher Seneca in one of his letters to Lucilius: with his customary rhetorical skill he had them cap a long list of erudite trivia.