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Antiquity Matters

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

Antiquity Matters

By Frederic Raphael

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About the book

A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering Prizes This book is the culmination of more than sixty years of a writing life during which Frederic Raphael has returned again and again to the literature and landscape of the ancient world. In his new book, Raphael deploys his renowned wit and erudition to give us a vivid mosaic of the complexities and contradictions underlying Western civilization and its continuing inf...Show more

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9780300215373

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published year

2017

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1

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Antiquity Matters

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Hardcover

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