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| Erasmus : Penguin Classics Ancient Literature 6 Book Collection: Utopia, The Last Days of Socrates, Praise of Folly, The Early History of Rome, The Persian Expedition, The Jewish War [6 Paperbacks] | |
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Penguin Classics Ancient Literature 6 Book Collection: Utopia, The Last Days of Socrates, Praise of Folly, The Early History of Rome, The Persian Expedition, The Jewish War [6 Paperbacks] |
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Paperback |
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1758 |
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1973 |
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B00443AU3Q |
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Penguin Classics |
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Six of Penguin's Classics titles: 1) ERASMUS - PRAISE OF FOLLY: One of the best satirical classics of the Renaissance. It was very widely read in Erasmus's lifetime and even today reads amusingly and instructively, having lost none of its fire and very little of its relevance. 2) PLATO - THE LAST DAYS OF SOCRATES: The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting the minds of the young, forms one of the most tragic episodes in the history of Athens in decline. 3) THOMAS MORE - UTOPIA: Sir Thomas More's entertaining description of Utopia, an island supporting a perfectly organized and happy people, was a best seller when it first appeared in Latin in 1516. Utopia revolutionized Plato's classical blueprint of the perfect republic, mainly by its realism. 4) LIVY - THE EARLY HISTORY OF ROME: Contains the first five books of his monumental work, and proceeds from the foundation of Rome through the history of the seven kings, the establishment of the Republic and its internal struggles, up to Rome's recovery after the fierce Gallic invasion of the fourth century B.C. 5) XENOPHON - THE PERSIAN EXPEDITION: In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides an enthralling eyewitness account of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army - the Ten Thousand - to help Prince Cyrus overthrow his brother and take the Persian throne. Xenophon, one of those chosen to lead the retreating army, provides a vivid narrative of the campaign and its aftermath, and his account remains one of the best pictures we have of Greeks confronting a "barbarian" world. 6) JOSEPHUS - THE JEWISH WAR: Josephus' account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against Rome between AD 66 and 70. The Jewish War remains one of the most immediate accounts of war, its heroism and its horrors, ever written.
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