The Portable Greek Reader W. R. Runyan ISBN13: 9789385384240

ISBN13: 9789385384240

Now in their late eighties

accounts of personal experiences and other forms of devotional writing

From the author of the award winning series Young Pistolero

and his Masters and Doctorate degrees in Mythological Studies from Pacifica Graudaute School in Santa Barbara

The Portable Greek Reader W. R. Runyan ISBN13: 9789385384240It is commonplace to say that our civilization is built on the ruins of Greece. W. H. Auden's splendid anthology locates the truth behind the truism, while filling in the gaps in our knowledge of a people who gave us so much of our cultural legacy. Every page in The Portable Greek Reader contains some fundamental precursor of the ways in which we think about heroism, destiny, love, politics, tragedy, science, virtue, and thought itself, Included are