Zero to Hero, Hero to Zero de Lydia Langerwerf

Zero to Hero, Hero to Zero: In Search of the Classical Hero

Lydia Langerwerf

Cressida Ryan

Hercules is a hero; we were all brought up to appreciate the supposedly basic idea of the ancient hero. But what about him makes him a hero? This book aims to challenge some of the standard expectations as to what constitutes a hero, through considering the phenomenon of heroism from a range of viewpoints.

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Lydia Langerwerf read Ancient History at the Universities of Groningen and Cambridge. She was recently awarded a PhD at Nottingham for her thesis ' "No Freer than the Helots". Messenian Rebel Behaviour in Pausanias' Messeniaka in Comparative Perspective'. The dissertation developed from her interests in the history and ideology of slavery and other forms of bonded labour in Greek and Roman Antiquity. Other research interests include Greek and Latin concepts of courage, African-American and Caribbean classical scholarship and classical historiography. Cressida Ryan is the Classics Outreach Officer at the University of Oxford. She read Classics at Cambridge, also taking an MPhil there specialising in Ancient Literature and reception, before teaching in boarding schools. She has recently completed a PhD at Nottingham entitled 'Eighteenth-century responses to Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus', a synchronic, interdisciplinary study of the play's scholarship and performance reception in eighteenth-century England and France. Other research interests include Neo-Latin literature, theological Greek, Classics and education, alongside music and Greek tragedy more widely.

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Zero to Hero, Hero to Zero: In Search of the Classical Hero

Preț: 396.91 lei

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Preț: 396^.91 lei