Product Description: En este ensayo, convertido en clásico desde su aparcición en 1930 e inexplicablemente no traducido hasta ahora al español, Hamilton explora la capacidad de la cultura griega para crear los fundamentos de nuestra civilización. Lo que ha convertido a este texto en un clásico, y que le granjeó la enemistad de la intelectualidad de su tiempo, es su desdén por la forma académica...read more

Presents outstanding translations of the Greek philosopher's works by leading British and American scholars of the last century

Product Description: Fourth-century Athens has a special claim on our attention, apart from the great men it produced, for it is the prelude to the end of Greece.The kind of events that took place in the great free government of the ancient world may, by reason of unchanging human nature, be repeated in the modern world...read more

Product Description: Essays on philosophy and literature, both ancient and modern, by the author of The Greek Way."A great lady with a disciplined and noble mind and an unquenchable love of good literature. In this volume, we can still hear that calm but not passionless voice explaining the grandeurs and difficulties of some of her favorite books and communicating her appreciation of them to us...read more

Product Description: The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece."Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilizaed world, a strange new power was at work...read more

Discusses the factors that distinguished the literature of ancient Greece and Rome from the rest of the world, capturing the essence of two civilizations

Ancient Greek, Roman and Norse myths of creation, love, adventure, war, and human tragedy are retold

Since its original publication by Little, Brown & Company in 1942, this author's Mythology has sold millions of copies throughout the world & established itself as a perennial bestseller in its various available formats: hardcover, trade paperback, & mass market paperback. Mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern readeer the Greek, Roman & Norse myths & legends that are the keystone of Western culture - the stories of gods & heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present. This new Back Bay trade paperback edition of Mythology replaces the Meridian edition formerly available from the Penguin Group. In August 1998 a new mass market paperback edition of Mythology published by Warner Books will replace the Mentor/Dutton Signet mass market edition formerly available from the Penguin Group.

A collection of Greek and Roman myths arranged in sections on the gods and early heroes, love and adventure stories, the Trojan war, and a brief section on Norse mythology

A collection of Greek and Roman myths arranged in sections on the gods and early heroes, love and adventure stories, the Trojan war, and a brief section on Norse mythology

Product Description: In this informal history of Roman civilization, Edith Hamilton vividly depicts the Roman life and spirit as they are revealed in the greatest writers of the time.Among these literary guides are Cicero, who left an incomparable collection of letters; Catullus, the quintessential poet of love; Horace, the chronicler of a cruel and materialistic Rome; and the Romantics Virgil, Livy, and Seneca...read more

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Three classic Greek tragedies are translated and critically introduced