How to Teach Classics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction to the Ancient Greeks and Romans - Couverture rigide

Womack, Philip

 
9781786078148: How to Teach Classics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction to the Ancient Greeks and Romans
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ISBN 10 : 1786078147 ISBN 13 : 9781786078148
Editeur : Oneworld Publications, 2020

Synopsis

It should have been a beautiful moment between a man and his dog. Philip Womack made a quip about Cerberus, the three-headed hell-hound, but for Una, the beloved lurcher, it was all Greek. Then she ran off after a squirrel. And Womack was left to wonder what else she didn't know about the great civilisations of the past. The Greeks and the Romans laid the foundations of so much of what we read, listen to and watch today, from the baked pies of Game of Thrones to the Lotus-eaters of Love Island. In this unique introduction, Womack leads Una and us on a fleet-footed odyssey through the classical world. You'll learn to tell your Odysseus from your Oedipus, your Polyxena from your Polydorus…but the story of the hunting dogs that tore their own master apart may be best left for another day.

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À propos de l?auteur

Philip Womack is the author of several critically acclaimed fantasy novels for children. He read Classics and English at Oriel College, Oxford, and has taught Latin and Greek to a wide variety of students around the world. His most recent children's book, The Arrow of Apollo, tells the stories of the children of the heroes Aeneas and Orestes. He lives in London with his wife, three children, and lurcher.

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It should have been a beautiful moment between a man and his dog. Philip Womack made a quip about Cerberus, the three-headed hell-hound, but for Una, the beloved lurcher, it was all Greek. Then she ran off after a squirrel. And Womack was left to wonder what else she didn't know about the great civilisations of the past. The Greeks and the Romans laid the foundations of so much of what we read, listen to and watch today, from the baked pies of Game of Thrones to the Lotus-eaters of Love Island. In this unique introduction, Womack leads Una and us on a fleet-footed odyssey through the classical world. You'll learn to tell your Odysseus from your Oedipus, your Polyxena from your Polydorus…but the story of the hunting dogs that tore their own master apart may be best left for another day.

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Éditeur
Oneworld Publications
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1786078147
ISBN 13 
9781786078148
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780861541218: How to Teach Classics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction to the Ancient Greeks and Romans

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ISBN 10 :  0861541219 ISBN 13 :  9780861541218
Editeur : Oneworld Publications, 2021
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