About this title: Colin Macleod died in December 1981 at the age of 38. Many regarded him as already one of the most profound interpreters in our times of Greek and Latin literature and ideas; and it was widely felt that his essays should be collected together in a single volume. There are twenty longer essays, including two previously unpublished, on Homer's poetics and on Thucydides' tragic vision, and some dozen shorter pieces. The three most prominent authors are Thucydides, Horace, and Gregory of Nyssa; but Macleod's extraordinary range included Aeschylus, Catullus, Propertius, and Origen, among many ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780198140252ISBN:0198140258
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Ex-library copy with some library markings, no dust jacket. Binding slightly loose. Clean text, overall good condition. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 372 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780198150848ISBN:0198150849
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780198150848ISBN:0198150849
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 234x156 mm. This book is printed on demand. (allow 1-2 weeks for printing) (370) colin macleod died in december 1981 at the age of 38. many regarded him as already one of the most profound interpreters in our times of greek and latin literature and ideas; and it was widely felt that his essays should be collected in a single volume. there are twenty longer essays and some dozen shorter ones; the author's marginal notes to his own writings have bene collected as an appendix. ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780198150848ISBN:0198150849
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: CLARENDON PRESS
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780198140252ISBN:0198140258
Description: Hardback with D/J. LITTLE USED. Jacket sunned and creased on some edges, otherwise jacket good, boards good, with index, appendix, addenda and corrigenda, notes & studies, internally fine, illustrated frontispiece. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
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