Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient History and Culture

By Peter Green

Book Overview

In a collection of sixteen literary and historical essays, classics scholar Peter Green covers a wide range of subjects--from the mysteries of the Delphic Oracle to Victorian pederasty--and reveals his serious concern that we are losing the legacy of antiquity through the corrosive methodologies of modern academic criticism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 050025107X
• ISBN13: 9780500251072
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.