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A New Literary History of America by Greil Marcus
Category: History | Series: Harvard University Press Reference Library
America is a nation making itself up as it goes along - a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and edit ...Show more
The Classical Tradition by Anthony Grafton
Category: Reference Dictionaries Words | Series: Harvard University Press Reference Library
How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus' sirens to an ambulance's? The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the af ...Show more
The Classical Tradition by Anthony Grafton
Category: Reference Dictionaries Words | Series: Harvard University Press Reference Library
How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus' sirens to an ambulance's? The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the af ...Show more
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