Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 8, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780415937726
First sentence: Because the full texts for all Greek prose authors before Herodotus (c. 485-c. 425 BC), and all philosophical writing before Plato (c. 428-c. 348 BC), are lost, we know their writings only through quotations, reports and paraphrases in latter literature which survived the collapse of ancient civilization.