Greeks and the New - Novelty in Ancient Greek Imagination and Experience

Informationen zum Autor Armand D'Angour is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Jesus College, Oxford. This is his first book. Klappentext Casts new light on ancient Greeks' attitudes to novelty in order to change scholarly understanding of their history and culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. New, new, new; 2. Loosening the grip of the past; 3. The transformations of Kaineus; 4. Old and new; 5. Nothing new under the sun; 6. The birth of Athena; 7. Inventions of Eris; 8. The newest song; 9. Constructions of novelty; 10. So what's new?

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• Authors: &apos, Armand J. angour, D&apos, Armand D'Angour, Armand J. D'Angour, Armand J. D''angour
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2011
• EAN: 9780521616485
• ISBN: 978-0-521-61648-5
• No. of pages: 276
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History of Ideas, European History, HISTORY / General, Ancient Greece, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, BCE period – Protohistory