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(0)Edith Hall
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In expert yet vibrant modern language, Hall lays out the crux of Aristotle's thinking, mixing affecting autobiographical anecdotes with a deep wealth of classical learning. For Hall, whose own life has been greatly improved by her understanding of Aristotle, this is an intensely personal subject. She distills his ancient wisdom into ten practical and universal lessons to help us confront life's difficult and crucial moments, summarizing a lifetime...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The travels and travails of Homer's resourceful hero have thrilled countless generations of listeners and readers, who for almost three millennia have breathlessly followed his voyage home from Troy to Ithaca. Edith Hall explains our enduring fascination with this epic in terms of its extraordinary openness to adaptation and reinterpretation. Not only has the narrative been read to reflect a wide range of intellectual and aesthetic agendas, but it...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Examines the ancient Greeks, from the rise of the Mycenaean kingdoms to the victory of Christianity over paganism, focusing on the qualities that characterized the widely diffused Mediterranean people over the long course of their history.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Tracing what the library has meant since its beginning, examining how its significance has shifted, and pondering its importance in the twenty-first century, significant contributors--including the librarian of the Congress and the former executive director of the HathiTrust--present a cultural history of the library"--Dust jacket flap.
