Classical Literature (Pelican Introduction) by Richard Jenkyns

Classical Literature (Pelican Introduction)

Richard Jenkyns

316 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction classics history challenging informative slow-paced

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Any list of the six greatest European poets would include Virgil, Aeschylus and Homer. A recent history of philosophy named Aristotle and Plato as two of the world's four greatest philosophers. The greatest historian of all is likely to be Thucydi...

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