The Origins of Greek Thought

10 best books like The Origins of Greek Thought (Jean-Pierre Vernant): Medea, The Country Wife, Phaedo, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects, Preface to Plato, The Singer of Tales, Another Time, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word, The Man of Mode, Wasps

Medea

Author	Euripides
ISBN	0486275485

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medea centers on the myth of Jason, leader of the Argonauts, who has won the dragon-guarded treasure of the Golden Fleece with the help of the sorceress Medea. Having married Medea and fathered her two children, Jason abandons her for a more favorable...

The Country Wife

Author	William Wycherley
ISBN	0713632879

I taught this play on a yearly basis at the end of the first half of English Lit sophomore survey, Anglo-Saxon to Restoration (more than half except to cramped moderns). After teaching it for the fifth year, it was performed by our best local (Providence, RI) theater; my school had 25 tickets for students,...

Phaedo

Author	Plato
ISBN	0192839535

The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the Phaedo ranks among the supreme literary achievements of antiquity. It is also a document crucial to the...

Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Author	Bertrand Russell
ISBN	0671203231

Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom,...

Preface to Plato

Author	Eric Alfred Havelock
ISBN	0674699068

Plato's frontal attack on poetry has always been a problem for sympathetic students, who have often minimized or avoided it. Beginning with the premise that the attack must be taken seriously, Eric Havelock shows that Plato's hostility is explained by the continued domination of the poetic tradition...

The Singer of Tales

Author	Albert Bates Lord
ISBN	0674808819

This 40th anniversary edition of Albert Lord's classic work includes a unique enhancement: a CD containing the original audio recordings of all the passages of heroic songs quoted in the book; a video publication of the kinescopic filming of the most valued of the singers; and selected photographs...

Another Time

Author	W.H. Auden
ISBN	0571234372

Another Time Un altro tempo è la prima raccolta che Auden pubblica nel 1940, un anno dopo il suo trasferimento negli Stati Uniti là dove finalmente riesce a sentirsi libero dalla cupezza di un Europa in piena crisi e che si apprestava ad una nuova guerra.
Scriverà in una lettera ad un amico: Adoro...

Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word

Author	Walter J. Ong
ISBN	0415281296

This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures offering a very clear account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology.

In the course of his study, Walter J. Ong offers fascinating insights into oral...

The Man of Mode

Author	George Etherege
ISBN	0713666897

Verbal brilliance, urbane sophistication and sexual conquest are the measures of success for the fashionable set who watched themselves being represented on the Restoration stage. Yet idealisation and satire, as this edition of Etherege's masterpiece shows, are flip sides of the same coin, and...

Wasps

Author	Aristophanes
ISBN	0198144652

Wasps was first performed at the festival of the Lenaia early in 422 B.C. It is arguably one of Aristophanes' most entertaining and characteristic works, and the lack of serious difficulties in the text makes it accessible to the less advanced student of Greek. This edition, first published in 1971,...

On Great Writing (On the Sublime)

Author	Longinus
ISBN	0872200809

Celebrated for its own clarity and sublime style, this classic work of literary theory draws on the writings of Demosthenes, Plato, Sappho, Thucydides, Euripides, and Aeschylus, among others, to examine and delineate the essentials of a noble style. The complete translation, from the Greek of A....

Dr. Space: The Life of Wernher Von Braun

Author	Bob Ward
ISBN	1591149266

Incredibly precocious and driven towards his goals, Wernher von Braun was a headstrong and unruly child with a predilection for thrill seeking and testing the rules. Whilst he always displayed a strong intellectualism, he only really began to apply himself to his studies, especially Maths that he...

Arte poética

Author

Horace

Sorpresa dal passato

Non ho la pretesa di effettuare un'analisi profonda e inattaccabile sotto il profilo storico o filosofico: il mio retaggio scolastico impedisce, inevitabilmente, di essere credibile; la stessa goffaggine iniziale, durante il primo approccio, è un'ulteriore conferma...

Albert Einstein: A Biography

Author	Albrecht Fölsing
ISBN	0140237194

"(Folsing) provides a nuanced, nonjudgmental personal portrait resting firmly on prodigious archival work. Albert Einstein allows us to see deeply into (his) inner world". -- Alan Lightman, The New York Review of BooksThe name of Albert Einstein has become synonymous with supreme wisdom and benignity....