"[It] will move you across the globe and back in time." - Library
Journal Europa Compass series - new format and covers For the
readers of Mary Beard and Bethany Hughes (Re)discover the timeless
beauty of ancient literature The classics "never exhaust what they
have to say". Informed by this belief, linguistic expert Piero
Boitani invites the reader to explore the wisdom of the works of
literature underpinning Western culture, and highlights their
profound and sometimes surprising connection to the present. The
themes explored in this book are as wide-ranging as they are
enduringly relevant. They include the Iliad's depiction of power
and war, as well as its invocation of compassion as one of the
necessary foundations of society; the Odyssey as the world's first
novel; Lucretius and the way he transformed Greek scientific
thought into sublime poetry; Virgil's celebration of the history of
Rome, from small village to world capital, as well as Tacitus'
denunciation of the imperialistic nature of Roman power; and Ovid's
Metamorphoses-a poem about incessant change the first postmodern
classic.
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