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Rent Classics: A Very Short Introduction (Non-fiction)
Author:
Narrator: John Henderson
Format: Abridged-CD
Publisher: Naxos Audio Books
Published: Nov 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism - Ancient & Classical
Retail Price: $22.98
Discs: 3
Synopsis
This Very Short Introduction to Classics links a haunting temple on a lonely mountainside to the glory of ancient Greece and the grandeur of Rome, and to Classics within modern culture - from Jefferson and Byron to Asterix and Ben-Hur. Edith Hall writes: 'Statues and slavery, temples and tragedies, museum, marbles and mythology' - this provocative guide to the Classics demystifies its varied subject-matter while seducing the reader with the obvious enthusiasm and pleasure which mark its writing.