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Author: Baltasar Gracian
Written over 350 years ago, "The Pocket Oracle and the Art of Prudence" is a charming collection of 300 witty and thought-provoking aphorisms. From the art of being lucky to the healthy use of caution, these elegant maxi ... |
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Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts
Author: Peter T. Struck
Nearly all of us have studied poetry and been taught to look for the symbolic as well as literal meaning of the text. Is this the way the ancients saw poetry? In "Birth of the Symbol", Peter Struck explores the ancient G ... |
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The Politics of Exhortation
Author: Elizabeth Irwin
The poetry of archaic Greece gives voice to the history and politics of the culture of that age. This book explores the types of history that have been, and can be, written from archaic Greek poetry, and the role this po ... |
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