Antiquity Matters
by Raphael, Frederic
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- Hardcover
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- New
- ISBN 10
- 0300215371
- ISBN 13
- 9780300215373
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Yale University Press, 2017. Hardcover. New. New tightly bound hardcover in new DJ. 8vo. (5.5 x 1.13 x 8.25 inches). Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes maps and an index. xiv, 376 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering Prizes This book is the culmination of more than sixty years of a writing life during which Frederic Raphael has returned again and again to the literature and landscape of the ancient world. In his new book, Raphael deploys his renowned wit and erudition to give us a vivid mosaic of the complexities and contradictions underlying Western civilization and its continuing influence upon contemporary society. Tackling a broad range of topics, from the presumed superiority of democracy to the momentum behind today's gay rights movement, Raphael's often daringly heterodox view of the Greek and Roman world will provoke, surprise, and, at the same time, entertain readers. He shows how the interplay of fiction and reality, rhetorical aspiration and practical cunning, are threaded through modern culture.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering Prizes This book is the culmination of more than sixty years of a writing life during which Frederic Raphael has returned again and again to the literature and landscape of the ancient world. In his new book, Raphael deploys his renowned wit and erudition to give us a vivid mosaic of the complexities and contradictions underlying Western civilization and its continuing influence upon contemporary society. Tackling a broad range of topics, from the presumed superiority of democracy to the momentum behind today's gay rights movement, Raphael's often daringly heterodox view of the Greek and Roman world will provoke, surprise, and, at the same time, entertain readers. He shows how the interplay of fiction and reality, rhetorical aspiration and practical cunning, are threaded through modern culture.
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- The Anthropologists Closet (US)
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- Title
- Antiquity Matters
- Author
- Raphael, Frederic
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0300215371
- ISBN 13
- 9780300215373
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Date Published
- 2017
- Keywords
- Alexander the Great, Aristophanes, Athens, Herodotus, Jens, Lord Byron, Pericles, Plato, Minos King, Lucan, Christianity, Empedocles,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Greece;
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