Antiquity faced with modernity; studies in Arcana historiae.9630583941 Antiquity faced with modernity; studies in Arcana ar·ca·na n. A plural of arcanum. historiae. Varady, Laszlo. Akademiai Kiado 2006 94 pages $18.00 Hardcover JA81 Varady presents five studies, some of them derived from university lectures, in which he investigates some unseen aspect of politics in antiquity by delving deeply into primary texts without distraction Distraction Divination (See OMEN.) Porlock a “person from Porlock” interrupted Coleridge while he was recollecting the dream on which he based “Kubla Khan”. [Br. Lit.: Poems of Coleridge in Magill IV, 756] from modern historians or other sources. His topics include functional impacts of Hellas Hellas: see Greece. on world history, the Polybian report on his friendship with Scipio Aemillianus, and Caesar's perspectives on the revolution. The English is challenging. Distributed in the US by ISBS ISBS International Society of Biomechanics in Sports ISBS International Society for Biophysics and Imaging of the Skin ISBS Illinois State Button Society ISBS Iowa State Button Society ISBS Idaho State Button Society . There is no index. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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