Classic Greek Course in English (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Wilkinson, William Cleaver

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1332781381 ISBN 13 : 9781332781386

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore Greek ideas in English and access enduring classics without barriers.

This edition offers translations of Greek literature with essential commentary to make the ideas, history, and culture of ancient Greece clear and engaging for modern readers. It collects authors like Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and others, presenting the literature itself in accessible English while providing guiding notes to help you understand the context and significance.

This book is designed for readers who want a solid doorway into Greek literature, even if they do not study the original languages. It treats the works as they stand in translation, with thoughtful explanations that illuminate form, style, and historical setting. The result is a practical, readable course you can use for study, curiosity, or personal enrichment.

• Clear English translations paired with concise historical and biographical commentary
• Overview of major authors and their contributions to Greek literature
• Structured sections that support self guided study and classroom use
• Contextual notes that help you grasp literary form and cultural background

Ideal for readers of classical literature, students preparing for courses, or anyone curious about the roots of Western thought.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This volume belongs to a series of books, now four in number, devoted to a presentation in English of various foreign literatures, ancient and modern. The primary design of the series is to enable persons born to the use of English speech and precluded from accomplishing a course of school and college training in the foreign languages in which the literatures concerned were originally written, to enjoy an advantage as nearly as possible equivalent through the medium of their native tongue. These books are, none of them, histories of the literatures treated. They are those literatures themselves, in specimen, presented through translation, with accompaniment of such comment, historical, biographical, critical, and explanatory, as was judged necessary to make them, in the highest degree possible within very narrow limits, effectively known. They are, it is believed, somewhat different in purpose and in method from any other books existing. The present volume is the result of selection and abridgment from two earlier volumes, each of about the same size with this, entitled, respectively, Preparatory Greek Course in English and College Greek Course in English. These fuller volumes are still kept in print for such readers as may desire to go a little more thoroughly into the study of Greek
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About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332781381
• ISBN 13: 9781332781386
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 329
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