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In 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 This third volume of Green's essays (several previously unpublished) reveals throughout his serious concern that we are, in a very real sense, losing the legacy of antiquity through the corrosive methodologies of modern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.
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- CONTENTS
- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- I. PRECEDENT, SURVIVAL, METAMORPHOSIS: CLASSICAL INFLUENCES IN THE MODERN WORLD
- II. VICTORIAN HELLAS
- III. LESBOS AND THE GENIUS LOCI
- IV. ON THE THANATOS TRAIL
- V. THE TREASURES OF EGYPT
- VI. DELPHIC RESPONSES
- VII. STREPSIADES, SOCRATES, AND THE ABUSES OF INTELLECTUALISM
- VIII. DOWNTREADING THE DEMOS
- IX. SEX AND CLASSICAL LITERATURE
- X. THE MACEDONIAN CONNECTION
- XI. AFTER ALEXANDER: SOME HISTORIOGRAPHICAL APPROACHES TO THE HELLENISTIC AGE
- XII. CAESAR AND ALEXANDER: AEMULATIO, IMITATIO, COMPARATIO
- XIII. CARMEN ET ERROR: THE ENIGMA OF OVID'S EXILE
- XIV. WIT, SEX AND TOPICALITY: THE PROBLEMS CONFRONTING A TRANSLATOR OF OVID'S LOVE POETRY
- XV. JUVENAL REVISITED
- XVI. MEDIUM AND MESSAGE RECONSIDERED: THE CHANGING FUNCTIONS OF CLASSICAL TRANSLATION
- NOTES AND REFERENCES
- INDEX