Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times

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Christopher Pelling (Regius Professor of Greek, Oxford University) Maria Wyke (Professor of Latin, University College London)

Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome

Ancient Ideas for Modern Times

Christopher Pelling (Regius Professor of Greek, Oxford University), Maria Wyke (Professor of Latin, University College London)

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Oxford University Press
11 November 2014

Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; History; European history; Classical history & classical civilisation; Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome is a book for all readers who want to know more about the literature that underpins Western civilization. Chistopher Pelling and Maria Wyke provide a vibrant and distinctive introduction to twelve of the greatest authors from ancient Greece and Rome, writers whose voices still resonate strongly across the centuries: Homer, Sappho, Herodotus, Euripides, Thucydides, Plato, Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Juvenal and Tacitus. To what vital ideas do these authors give voice? And why are we so often drawn to what they say even in modern times? Twelve Voices investigates these tantalizing questions, showing how these great figures from

classical antiquity still address some of our most fundamental concerns in the world today (of war and courage, dictatorship and democracy, empire, immigration, city life, art, madness, irrationality, and religious commitment), and express some of our most personal sentiments (about family and friendship, desire and separation, grief and happiness). These twelve classical voices can sound both compellingly familiar and startlingly alien to the twenty-first century reader. Yet they remain suggestive and inspiring, despite being rooted in their own times and places, and have profoundly affected the lives of those prepared to listen to them right up to the present day.

By: Christopher Pelling (Regius Professor of Greek Oxford University), Maria Wyke (Professor of Latin, University College London)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 223mm, Width: 142mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 456g
ISBN: 9780199597369
ISBN 10: 0199597367
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 11 November 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Maria Wyke is Professor of Latin at University College London. She has written extensively on Roman love poetry (collected in The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations, 2002), on Julius Caesar (Caesar: A Life in Western Culture, 2007, and Caesar in the USA, 2012), and on ancient Rome in cinema (Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome, Cinema and History, 1997).

Reviews for Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times

the book's tone is spot on, steering a steady course between concision and garrulousness The Belgravia Residents Journal an interesting book The Writers Drawer splendid book Telegraph [L]ovely little anthology ... an engaging approach to ancient literature Times Higher Education We know now that we are driven to share knowledge and thought because, as a species, we can imagine the potential consequence of communicating ideas. How thrilling then to have the voices - and ideas - of twelve of the very greatest ancients communicated to us by two of the 21st century's finest classical scholars. Through the painstaking and pleasure-rich work of Pelling and Wyke here we learn both about the minds and, critically, the lives and histories of key players in the story of civilisation. Fresh scholarship is combined with a deep and charismatic understanding. What more could anyone ask for in one book? Bettany Hughes A wonderful reader's guide to classical literature: these ancient voices, so vividly brought to life by Pelling and Wyke, speak with freshness, immediacy and urgency. Charlotte Higgins