LoginThe Great Books: A Journey Through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature
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The Odyssey, Paradise Lost, The Canterbury Tales: great literature can be read by anyone, with a little help. The eminent British philosopher Anthony O’Hear leads the way with this captivating journey through two-and-a-half millennia of books as powerful, thrilling, erotic, politically astute, and awe-inspiring as any modern bestseller.
O’Hear begins with Homer, whose poems of epic struggle have made him the father of Western literature. After Greek tragedy, Plato, and Virgil’s Aeneid comes Ovid, whose encyclopedic Metamorphoses is an inexhaustible source for European art and literature. Via Saint Augustine, O’Hear re
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Manufacturer: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Release date: 1 February 2009
ISBN-10 : 1933859784 | ISBN-13: 9781933859781
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Release date: 1 February 2009
ISBN-10 : 1933859784 | ISBN-13: 9781933859781
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