Essays Ancient and Modern

by Bernard Knox

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Linked by the events of Bernard Knox's re arkable life, the chapters of Essays Ancient and Modern cover subjects ranging from Hesiod, Homer, and Thucydides to Auden, Forster, and the Spanish Civil War. With a masterful eye for the telling detail, KNox continually reminds us that we share the present with antiquity's living past. A soldier in Itlay find a battered book in the rubble of a bombed-out firehouse--and opens it to read Virgil's...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0801841070

ISBN13:9780801841071

Release Date:September 1990

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Age Range:22 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Ancient Ancient & Classical Literature Criticism & Theory Education & Reference Essays Essays & Correspondence Greek History History & Criticism Humanities

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