LIBROS DEL AUTOR: steven shankman

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  • Pope’s 'Iliad'
    Steven Shankman
    Explaining why the English Augustan Age could more accurately be called the ''Age of Passion'' than the ''Age of Reason,'' this book recovers the interpretive and stylistic aims of Pope and his contemporaries and addresses objections that have lost Pope’s Iliad the audience it deserves. Controversial even before the appearance of the first of its six volumes in 1715, the work r...
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    25,77 €

  • The Siren and the Sage
    Stephen Durrant / Steven Shankman
    The cultures of ancient China and ancient Greece have exerted immeasurable influence on later civilizations. The texts and cultural values of classical China spread throughout East Asia and became the foundation of learning in Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Greek learning and culture receive credit for many of the intellectual paradigms of the West. Probably the one which is most di...
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    28,30 €

  • The Siren and the Sage
    Stephen Durrant / Steven Shankman
    A comparative study of what the most influential writers of Ancient Greece and China thought it meant to have knowledge and whether they distinguished knowledge from other forms of wisdom. It surveys selected works of poetry, history and philosophy from the period of roughly the eighth through to the second century BCE, including Homer’s 'Odyssey', the ancient Chinese 'Classic ...
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    175,16 €