{"product_id":"of-gods-and-men-von-undefined","title":"Of Gods and Men","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rigorously and imaginatively researched anthology of classical literature, bringing together one hundred stories from the rich diversity of the literary canon of ancient Greece and Rome. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStriking a balance between the 'classic classic' (such as Dryden's translation of the \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e) and the less familiar or expected, \u003ci\u003eOf Gods and Men\u003c\/i\u003e ranges from the epic poetry of Homer to the histories of Arrian and Diodorus Siculus and the sprawling \u003ci\u003eTheogony\u003c\/i\u003e of Hesiod; from the tragedies of Aeschylus and Euripides to the biographies of Suetonius and Plutarch and the pen portraits of Theophrastus; and from the comedies of Plautus to the fictions of Petronius and Apuleius.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOf Gods and Men\u003c\/i\u003e is embellished by translations from writers as diverse as Queen Elizabeth I (Boethius), Percy Bysshe Shelley (Plato), Walter Pater (Apuleius's \u003ci\u003eGolden Ass\u003c\/i\u003e), Lawrence of Arabia (Homer's \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e), Louis MacNeice (Aeschylus's \u003ci\u003eAgamemnon\u003c\/i\u003e) and Ted Hughes (Ovid's \u003ci\u003ePygmalion\u003c\/i\u003e), as well as a number of accomplished translations by Daisy Dunn herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781803287430\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e100 Stories from Ancient Greece and Rome\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9781803287430","offer_id":47415407182149,"sku":"9781803287430","price":25.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/b72aa9b0-a793-4b5c-b87d-78bd732aa743.jpg?v=1781496318","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/of-gods-and-men-von-undefined","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}