55 Results for : classicist
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Odysseus: A Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 364min
From an acclaimed classicist comes a witty, unusual, and fascinating "biography" of Homer's fictional Bronze Age hero, Odysseus. In this entertaining book, Charles Beye fills out the story of this extraordinary figure while at the same time portraying Odysseus' evolution through the course of a strange and adventuresome life, at times so remote, at times so immediate in the contemporary perspective. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Bramhall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/000756/bk_blak_000756_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Iliad: A New Translation by Caroline Alexander , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1186min
With her virtuoso translation, classicist and best-selling author Caroline Alexander brings to life Homer's timeless epic of the Trojan War. Composed around 730 BC, Homer's Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted 10-year war between the invading Achaeans, or Greeks, and the Trojans in their besieged city of Ilion. From the explosive confrontation between Achilles, the greatest warrior at Troy, and Agamemnon, the inept leader of the Greeks, through to its tragic conclusion, The Iliad explores the abiding, blighting facts of war. Soldier and civilian, victor and vanquished, hero and coward, men, women, young, old - The Iliad evokes in poignant, searing detail the fate of every life ravaged by the Trojan War. And, as told by Homer, this ancient tale of a particular Bronze Age conflict becomes a sublime and sweeping evocation of the destruction of war throughout the ages. Carved close to the original Greek, acclaimed classicist Caroline Alexander's new translation is swift and lean, with the driving cadence of its source - a translation epic in scale yet devastating in its precision and power. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dominic Keating. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/005134/bk_harp_005134_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Anne Carson at the 92nd Street Y Poetry Center, Hörbuch, Digital, 56min
Anne Carson is "the most exciting poet writing in English today", said Michael Ondaatje. Carson, an essayist and classicist, is the author of many collections and translations, including Decreation, The Beauty of the Husband, Eros the Bittersweet, and Autobiography of Red. Her translations of four plays by Euripides are collected in Grief Lessons. Carson returns to the Poetry Center to perform her pieces "Cassandra Float Can" and "Lecture on Pronouns". Language: English. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/sp/nsty/000119/sp_nsty_000119_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Odyssey , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 783min
The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of every man's journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, the energy and poetry of Homer's original is captured in a bold, contemporary idiom, giving us an edition of The Odyssey that is a joy to listen to, worth savoring and treasuring for its sheer lyrical mastery. This audiobook is sure to delight both the classicist and the general listener and to captivate a new generation of Homer's students. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ian McKellen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/000013/bk_peng_000013_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Pompeii - The Life of a Roman Town , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 755min
Pompeii explodes a number of myths - among them, the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought; the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs; the legendary number of brothels, most likely only one; and the death count, which was probably less than ten per cent of the population. These are just a few of the strands that make up an extraordinary and involving portrait of an ancient town, its life and its continuing re-discovery, by Britain’s leading classicist. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Phyllida Nash. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/003495/bk_bbcw_003495_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Cauldron of War 1914-1918
The Cauldron of War 1914-1918 ab 41.49 € als gebundene Ausgabe: The Experiences of Robert Gardner Mc Cambridge Classicist and Infantry Officer. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Geschichte,- Shop: hugendubel
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Tales of Troy and Greece: The Iliad & The Odyssey Plainly Told , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 585min
Tales of Troy and Greece by classicist and gifted storyteller Andrew Lang is an ideal introduction to the The Iliad and The Odyssey, recounting the Homeric legend of the wars between the Greeks and the Trojans. Paris, Achilles, the lovely Helen of Troy, Penelope, Hector, Ulysses, the Amazons, and the Wooden Horse all feature in this evocative introduction to one of the greatest legends ever told. This audiobook includes the adventures of Theseus and his battle with the Minotaur, with the help of Ariadne, the legend of Perseus, and Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Greg Wagland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/001588/bk_mike_001588_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly
Aristophanes's satirical masterpieces, immensely popular with the Athenian public, were frequently crude, even obscene. His plays revealed to his contemporaries, and now teach us today, that when those in power act obscenely, patriotic obscenity is a fitting response. Until now English translations have failed to capture Aristophanes's poetic genius. Aaron Poochigian, the first poet-classicist to tackle these plays in a generation, offers "effortlessly readable and genuinely theatrical" (Simon Armitage) versions of four of Aristophanes's most entertaining, provocative and lyrically ingenious comedies, finally giving twenty-first-century readers a sense of the subversive pleasure audiences felt when these works were first performed on the Athenian stage.- Shop: buecher
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The Cauldron of War 1914-1918
The Cauldron of War 1914-1918 ab 28.99 € als Taschenbuch: The Experiences of Robert Gardner Mc Cambridge Classicist and Infantry Officer. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Geist & Wissen,- Shop: hugendubel
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American Classicist: The Architecture of Philip Trammell Shutze
First published in 1989, this updated edition celebrates this seminal American architect. Between 1912 and 1968, Philip Trammell Shutze produced over 750 architectural works. Because he was so prolific, the book examines only his most essential work, which as a body represents an architec-tural achievement of a very high order of refinement, grace, and beauty. A graduate of Georgia Tech, Shutze stayed one year at Columbia University before he won the prestigious Rome Prize, traveling shortly thereafter to Rome. There he remained for five years, learning everything he could about the great buildings of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. On his return to the U.S., Shutze worked in New York for Mott Schmidt, who designed townhouses for such families as the Astors, Morgans, and Vanderbilts, and he also worked for F. Burrall Hoffman, whose master-piece is Villa Vizcaya in Miami. Within a few years, though, he returned to Georgia, to design in the Classical and traditional styles some of the most beautiful buildings ever to grace the American landscape.- Shop: buecher
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