Plutarch
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"An outstanding new edition of Plutarch, the inventor of biography, focused on five lives that remade the Roman world. Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names still resonate across thousands of years. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republic, they haunt us with questions of character and authority: how to safeguard a republic from the flaws of its leaders. Plutarch's rich, vivid profiles show character shaping...
Series
Lapham's Quarterly volume 7, no. 3
Publisher
American Agora Foundation
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Series
Lapham's Quarterly volume 7, no. 2
Publisher
American Agora Foundation
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Series
Lapham's Quarterly volume 4, no. 1
Publisher
American Agora Foundation
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Publisher
Clarkson Potter
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A landmark illustrated anthology of queer Greek and Roman love stories that reclaim and celebrate homosexual love and sensuality, from artist Luke Edward Hall and award-winning poet Sèn Hewitt. For centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world has either been ignored or suppressed. Even today, only a few narratives are widely known: the wild romance of Achilles and Patroclus; the yearning love of Sappho's lyrics; and the three genders introduced...