The Bad Boy of Athens : Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones

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The Bad Boy of Athens : Classics from the Greeks to Game of ThronesOver the past three decades, Daniel Mendelsohns essays and reviews have earned him a reputation as our most irresistible literary critic (New York Times). This striking new collection exemplifies the way in which Mendelsohn a classicist by training uses the classics as a lens to think about urgent contemporary debates. There is much to surprise here. Mendelsohn invokes the automatons featured in Homers epics to help explain the AI films Ex Machina and

Όταν τον πρωτοείδε

and therefore philosophy itself

There is no crude

Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 BC survive in a complete form and are included in the preceding six volumes of the Loeb Euripides

who is generally regarded as the author of the last book of Caesar's Gallic War

Ο "Μύγας" άπιαστος πετά γύρω από τους ήρωες

Η μοίρα όμως δε στάθηκε σπλαχνική μαζί τους

Featuring an engaging new translation by Jamie Kreiner and the original Latin on facing pages

whose defeat had important consequences for the subsequent history and self-image of Europe

who hid her cocaine addiction well

and every long-simmering faction is poised to explode into the vacuum of power

he paints a grim picture of the moral perils to which anger exposes us

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