{"product_id":"twelve-voices-from-greece-and-rome-ancient-ideas-for-modern-times-9780199597369","title":"Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times","description":"\u003cem\u003eTwelve Voices from Greece and Rome\u003c\/em\u003e 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, Plato, Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Juvenal, and Tacitus. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo what vital ideas do these authors give voice? And why are we so often drawn to what they say even in modern times? \u003cem\u003eTwelve Voices\u003c\/em\u003e investigates these tantalizing questions, showing how these great figures from classical antiquity still address some of our most fundamental concerns in the world today (of war and courage, dictatorship and democracy, empire, immigration, city life, art, madness, irrationality, and religious commitment), and express some of our most personal sentiments (about family and friendship, desire and separation, grief and happiness). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese twelve classical voices can sound both compellingly familiar and startlingly alien to the twenty-first century reader. Yet they remain suggestive and inspiring, despite being rooted in their own times and places, and have profoundly affected the lives of those prepared to listen to them right up to the present day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Pelling,Maria Wyke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.34h x 4.96w x 0.82d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199597369\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2015 pg. 1310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristopher Pelling\u003c\/strong\u003e is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford. He has worked and published extensively on Classical Greek historiography and biography. Among his numerous publications are \u003cem\u003eLiterary Texts and the Greek Historian\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePlutarch and History: Eighteen Studies\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Wyke \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of Latin at University College London. She has written extensively on Roman love poetry (collected in \u003cem\u003eThe Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations\u003c\/em\u003e), on Julius Caesar (\u003cem\u003eCaesar: A Life in Western Culture\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCaesar in the USA\u003c\/em\u003e), and on ancient Rome in cinema (\u003cem\u003eProjecting the Past: Ancient Rome, Cinema and History\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44456458977395,"sku":"9780199597369","price":39.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_b6e70a6a-7bf0-4882-b949-e466ba883cfd.jpg?v=1773750383","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/twelve-voices-from-greece-and-rome-ancient-ideas-for-modern-times-9780199597369","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}