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  • Herodotus and the Question Why

    de Christopher Pelling ...
    This study of the ancient historian's work is "excellent . . . [A] rigorous and engaging introduction not only to Herodotus, but to many other Greek authors" ( Times Literary Supplement).In the fifth century BCE, Herodotus wrote the first known Western history to build on the tradition of Homeric storytelling, basing his text on empirical observations and arranging them systematically. Herodotus ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Literary Texts and the Greek Historian

    de Christopher Pelling ...
    Series series Approaching the Ancient World
    Our knowledge of Greek history rests largely on literary texts - not merely historians (especially Herodotus, Thucylides and Xenephon), but also tragedies, comedies, speeches, biographies and philosophical works. These texts are themselves among the most skilled and highly wrought productions of a brilliant rhetorical culture. How is the historian to use them? This book addresses this problem by ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome

    Ancient Ideas for Modern Times

    de Christopher Pelling, Maria Wyke ...
    Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome is a book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization. Chistopher Pelling and Maria Wyke provide a vibrant and distinctive introduction to twelve of the greatest authors from ancient Greece and Rome, writers whose voices still resonate strongly across the centuries: Homer, Sappho, Herodotus, Euripides, Thucydides ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Caesar

    de Plutarch ...
    Narrado por Christopher Pelling ...

    Completo

    2 hora 50 minutos

    Plutarch: Caesar is the essential companion to Plutarch's Alexander, the life paired with Caesar in Plutarch's Parallel Lives. This new English version of Caesar is followed by an Afterword about Plutarch’s Parallel Lives by the translator, Christopher Pelling, Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University.Plutarch composed his Lives in parallel pairs, and one choice must have seemed ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Rome in Crisis

    de Plutarch ...
    Traducido por Christopher Pelling ...
    Bringing together nine biographies from Plutarch's Parallel Lives series, this edition examines the lives of major figures in Roman history, from Lucullus (118-57 BC), an aristocratic politician and conqueror of Eastern kingdoms, to Otho (32-69 AD), a reckless young noble who consorted with the tyrannical, debauched emperor Nero before briefly becoming a dignified and gracious emperor himself.Ian ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Alexander

    de Plutarch ...
    Narrado por Christopher Pelling ...

    Completo

    3 hora 21 minutos

    Plutarch: Alexander is the essential companion to Plutarch's Caesar, the life paired with Alexander in Plutarch's Parallel Lives. This new English version of Alexander is followed by an Afterword about Plutarch’s Parallel Lives by the translator, Christopher Pelling, Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University.Plutarch composed his Lives in parallel pairs, and one choice must have ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Fever Dreams

    Horror Short Stories

    de Caolán Mac an Aircinn, Alan Baxter, A.K. Benedict, Clay McLeod Chapman, Kay Chronister, Ryan Cole, Craig DiLouie, Tracy Fahey, Jeffrey Ford, Philip Fracassi, Rob Francis, Christopher Golden, Rebecca Harrison, C.J. Leede, Chad Lutzke, Gary McMahon, Tanya Pell, Priya Sharma, Lucy A. Snyder, Tim Waggoner, Kaaron Warren ...
    Series series The Flame Tree Book of Horror
    A powerful sixth book in the horror anthology series which Booklist called "Highly recommended for longstanding horror fans and those readers who may not think horror is for them. There is something for everyone in this one."Fever Dreams is the sixth volume in the non-themed horror series of original stories, showcasing the very best short fiction that the genre has to offer, and edited by Mark ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Pelles & Râteaux

    Stratégies d'un séducteur

    de Christophe Duchatelet ...
    Après tout, quoi de plus banal qu’un divorce ? Mathieu entame vaillamment sa nouvelle carrière de père célibataire, maîtrisant aussi bien la recette du jambon-purée que la recherche angoissante du doudou magique de sa petite Luna. Père d’accord, célibataire aussi ! Après avoir inspecté son corps dans le miroir de sa chambre pour la 97e fois, Mathieu a tout compris : dorénavant, il deviendra un ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Rediscovering E. R. Dodds

    Scholarship, Education, Poetry, and the Paranormal

    Edición de Christopher Stray, Christopher Pelling, Stephen Harrison ...
    Rediscovering E. R. Dodds offers the first comprehensive assessment of a remarkable classical scholar, who was also a poet with extensive links to twentieth-century English and Irish literary culture, the friend of Auden and MacNeice. Dodds was born in Northern Ireland, but made his name as Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford from 1936 to 1960, succeeding Gilbert Murray. Before this he taught at ... Leer más

    $100.99 USD

  • Ancient Historiography and Its Contexts

    Studies in Honour of A. J. Woodman

    Edición de Christina S. Kraus, John Marincola, Christopher Pelling ...
    This is a collection of studies on ancient (especially Latin) poetry and historiography, concentrating especially on the impact of rhetoric on both genres, and on the importance of considering the literature to illuminate the historical Roman context and the historical context to illuminate the literature. It takes the form of a tribute to Tony Woodman, Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at the ... Leer más

    $128.99 USD

  • New Worlds from Old Texts

    Revisiting Ancient Space and Place

    Edición de Elton Barker, Stefan Bouzarovski, Christopher Pelling, Leif Isaksen ...
    Maps dominate the modern sense of place and geography. Yet, so far as we can tell, maps were rare in the Greco-Roman world and, when mentioned in sources, are mistrusted and criticized. Today, technological advances have brought to the fore an entirely new set of methods for representing and interacting with space. In contrast to traditional 'topographic' perspectives, the territorial extent of ... Leer más

    $104.99 USD

  • Herodotus: Histories Book VI

    Edición de Simon Hornblower, Christopher Pelling ...
    Series Libro 6 - Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    Book VI of the Histories is one of Herodotus' most varied books, beginning with the final collapse of the Ionian Revolt and moving on to the Athenian triumph at Marathon (490 BC); it also includes fascinating material on Sparta, full of court intrigue and culminating in Kleomenes' grisly death, and there is comedy too, with Alkmeon's cramming clothes, boots, and even cheeks with gold dust, then ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD