The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours by Gregory Nagy

The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours

Gregory Nagy

656 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction classics history adventurous challenging informative slow-paced

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What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than we do today. Based on the legendary Harvard course that Gregory Nagy has taught for well over thirty years, Th...

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