Description: A Dictionary of Classical Greek Quotations Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): Oliver Taplin, Marinos Yeroulanos Format: Hardback Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom Imprint: I.B. Tauris ISBN-13: 9781784534929, 978-1784534929 Synopsis 'Human wisdom is of little or no value', wrote Plato in his Apology. And yet the ancient Greeks, including Plato himself, more than any other people of antiquity were fascinated by the pursuit of the wisdom they called philosophia. That search for knowledge involved an extensive use of maxims and quotations, as we can see from those expressions of Homer prefaced by the phrase 'as people say'. Homer, the Seven Sages and the Pre-Socratic philosophers are still extensively quoted in all the major western languages. Yet for all their popularity, until now there has been no single resource to which interested readers might turn. This unique reference book offers one of the most comprehensive selections of Greek quotations ever committed to print. With its English text matched by the original Greek, the volume collects 7500 entries, ranging from the archaic period to late antiquity, and across philosophy, drama, poetry, history, science and medicine, each indexed with key words to enable fast sourcing. Together, these selections provide an incomparable insight into the glories of Greek civilization.
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Book Title: A Dictionary of Classical Greek Quotations
Number of Pages: 920 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: A Dictionary of Classical Greek Quotations
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: History
Item Height: 246 mm
Item Weight: 1580 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Marinos Yeroulanos
Item Width: 171 mm
Format: Hardcover
