LIBROS DEL AUTOR: michael vickers

3 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: michael vickers

  • Sophocles and Alcibiades
    Michael Vickers
    Literary historians have long held the view that the plays of the Greek dramatist, Sophocles deal purely with archetypes of the heroic past and that any resemblance to contemporary events or individuals is purely coincidental. This book challenges this view. ...
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    85,57 €

  • Phantom Trail
    Michael Vickers
    Traveling cross continent, the author explores several prominent, and many virtually 'secret' sites of American antiquity. All relate to civilizations and cultures which preceded the arrival of the European--some, by many 1000s of years. While the focus is on the Great Valley of the Mississippi and the stupendous and mysterious Moundbuilders, the working context is modern Ame...
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    24,33 €

  • Pericles on Stage
    Michael Vickers
    Since the eighteenth century, classical scholars have generally agreed that the Greek playwright Aristophanes did not as a matter of course write 'political' plays. Yet, according to an anonymous Life of Aristophanes, when Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse wanted to know about the government of Athens, Plato sent him a copy of Aristophanes’ Clouds. In this boldly revisionist wor...
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    38,91 €