The Portable Greek Reader W. R. Runyan Now in their late eighties

Now in their late eighties

ISBN13: 9789385384240

cruelty and generosity-promise a hard-won dignity and hope

Now it is dying

"The pleasant smell of flinty steel

The Portable Greek Reader W. R. Runyan Now in their late eightiesIt is commonplace to say that our civilization is built on the ruins of Greece. W. H. Auden's splendid anthology locates the truth behind the truism, while filling in the gaps in our knowledge of a people who gave us so much of our cultural legacy. Every page in The Portable Greek Reader contains some fundamental precursor of the ways in which we think about heroism, destiny, love, politics, tragedy, science, virtue, and thought itself, Included are