{"product_id":"classical-bearings-paperback","title":"Classical Bearings - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Green\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of sixteen literary and historical essays, Peter Green informs, entertains, and stimulates. He covers a wide range of subjects, from Greek attitudes toward death to the mysteries of the Delphic Oracle, from Tutankhamun and the gold of Egypt to sex in ancient literature, from the island of Lesbos (where he once lived) to the challenges of translating Ovid's wit and elegant eroticism into present-day English verse, from Victorian pederastic aesthetics to Marxism's losing battle with ancient history. This third volume of Green's essays (several previously unpublished) reveals throughout his serious concern that we are, in a very real sense, losing the legacy of antiquity through the corrosive methodologies of modern academic criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Green\u003c\/b\u003e is Dougherty Centennial Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Texas, Austin, and currently Visiting Professor of History at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. His other books available from California include a translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Argonautika: The Story of Jason and the Quest for the Golden Fleece\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), \u003ci\u003eAlexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age\u003c\/i\u003e (1990), \u003ci\u003eAlexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography\u003c\/i\u003e (1991), \u003ci\u003eThe Laughter of Aphrodite: A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), and \u003ci\u003eThe Greco-Persian Wars\u003c\/i\u003e (1996).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.89 x 8.95 x 6.05 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 25, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41885473865863,"sku":"9780520208117","price":57.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/4abe16bbbc9811b07634097b818088ac.webp?v=1734080136","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/classical-bearings-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}