What did it mean to be a professional teacher in the prestigious "liberal schools"―the schools of grammar and rhetoric―in late antiquity? How can we account for the abiding prestige of these schools, which remained substantially unchanged in their...

Enthält: Die Grundlagenkrisis der griechischen Mathematik / Helmut Hasse and Heinrich Scholz. Sur la constitution des livres ... ; Sur les connaissances ... / Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen.

Pearosn, Lionel

492 Page hardback book of Greek Literature.

D. Nurkse’s Burnt Island explores tragedy both grand and intimate, in city and country, in our own troubled moment and across the greater scope of geological time. Arranged in three “suites” of lucid, often heart-wrenching verse, the book begins with a...

Kilroy shows, as through a prism, episodes in the lives of Brendan Bracken and William Joyce, including their relationship with Ireland and their conceptions of Britain and Germany in World War II. How these antagonists, given a choice by history,...

A masterly translation of one of the greatest of Greek dramas.Their lives are the briefest concession,My concession, a nod of permission.As if I dozed off and dreamed a little.I take a dream-and Admetos calls it his life.-Death in AlcestisIn the years...

The complete text and stage directions to Shange's 1976 Broadway production is the moving statement of a talented black woman artist who sings the song of her own experience in a way that all can relate to it.

His mind crowded with vivid images of Africa, Graham Greene set off in 1935 to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar republic founded for released slaves. Now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, Journey Without Maps is the spellbinding record of...