Greek to Us: The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World - Hardcover
by John Davie
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Availability:In StockContributor:John Davie, Harry Mount (Foreword by)Publish date:1/6/2026Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury ContinuumISBN-13:9781399424790ISBN-10:1399424793UPC:9781399424790Book Category:History, Language Study, HumorBook Subcategory:Ancient, Latin, TopicBook Topic:Greece, LanguageSize:8.59 x 5.66 x 1.05 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC6VCWCPQ8
Greek to Us: The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World
John Davie, co-author of Et Tu, Brute? turns his attention to Ancient Greece. With a foreword by Harry Mount.
Ancient Greek lives on in our culture in surprising ways. Sometimes funny - the word for an actor, hupokrites, gives us 'hypocrite'; sometimes beautiful - an astronaut is literally a sailor of the skies. And that's before we get to the myths which gave us our Achilles heel or our Midas...Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury ContinuumISBN-13:9781399424790ISBN-10:1399424793UPC:9781399424790Book Category:History, Language Study, HumorBook Subcategory:Ancient, Latin, TopicBook Topic:Greece, LanguageSize:8.59 x 5.66 x 1.05 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC6VCWCPQ8
John Davie was head of classics at St Paul's School in London before becoming a lecturer at Trinity College, Oxford. He has published translations of Seneca, Horace, Cicero and Euripides. He is the co-author of Et Tu, Brute? (2022).
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