Reading Gregory Nagy's The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours is like travelling on the realms of gold. This whale of a text-book running to 727 pages with 21 illustrations, mostly images of Athenian paintings photo-copied from various museums, is based on a course that he has taught at Harvard for four decades and more. The book is an illuminating study of the whole range of Greek literature in ...
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