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  • Le coq chanta trois fois

    de Peter Pindare ...
    En 1980, le monde entier aura les yeux fixés sur les Jeux Olympiques de Moscou. Dès à présent les futurs millions de téléspectateurs, sportifs ou non, s’apprêtent à célébrer un rite presque séculaire. Les comités olympiques nationaux, les sélectionneurs dressent des bilans et rêvent déjà de médailles. Mais les Français, eux, hélas, ne rêvent pas... Où sont les Mimoun, les Jazy et les Drut d’antan ... Leer más

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  • Laughing at the King

    Selected Poems

    de Peter Pindar ...
    Reveling in the sycophancy and classist pretensions of England's courts in the late 18th century, this ribald collection of satirical verse specializes in lampooning the public and private lives of the decadent British monarchy. Containing the bitingly controversial social commentary of medical man turned political satirist, Dr. John Wolcott, and penned under the pseudonym of Peter Pindar, this ... Leer más

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  • Two Studies on Pindar

    Edición de Arlette Neumann-Hartmann ...
    Series Libro 18 - Sapheneia
    The late Bruce Karl Braswell worked on Pindar for decades. Besides many smaller contributions, his research resulted in fundamental commentaries on Pythian Four (1988), Nemean One (1992), and Nemean Nine (1998), and his last monograph, dedicated to Didymos of Alexandria and his ancient commentary on Pindar (2013). Two substantial, self-contained manuscript fragments were found in his papers after ... Leer más

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    Series series Princeton Classics
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  • Forbidden Rites

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    Series series Magic in History
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  • European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

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  • What Was History?

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    From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering works grew from complex early modern debates about law, religion and classical scholarship. Anthony Grafton's book is based on his Trevelyan Lectures of 2005, and it proves to be a powerful and imaginative exploration of some central themes in the history ... Leer más

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  • The Crisis of Music in Early Modern Europe, 1470--1530

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