Antiquity Matters - Hardcover

Raphael, Frederic

 
9780300215373: Antiquity Matters
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0300215371 ISBN 13: 9780300215373
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

A major scholar in Classics at Cambridge, Frederic Raphael is an Oscar-winning screenwriter (Darling), a biographer, a translator, and the author of many books, including The Glittering Prizes.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300215371
ISBN 13 
9780300215373
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
376
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