Classical Literature
Any list of the six greatest European poets would include Virgil, Aeschylus and Homer. A recent history of philosophy named Aristotle and Plato as two of the world''s four greatest philosophers. The greatest historian of all is likely to be Thucydides. Why was Ancient Greek and Roman literature so great?
Sweeping across a thousand years, acclaimed professor Richard Jenkyns provides a lucid and liv...
Any list of the six greatest European poets would include Virgil, Aeschylus and Homer. A recent history of philosophy named Aristotle and Plato as two of the world''s four greatest philosophers. The greatest historian of all is likely to be Thucydides. Why was Ancient Greek and Roman literature so great?
Sweeping across a thousand years, acclaimed professor Richard Jenkyns provides a lucid and liv...
