- Hardcover: 230 pages
- Publisher: Princeton University Press (1 July 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0691073791
- ISBN-13: 978-0691073798
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,917,664 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A rich and brilliant study.... [Padel] helps us to see not just that Greek ways of thinking are so profoundly alien, but also how they make sense and could be coherently lived. Her skill as a writer ... make[s] those foreign patterns of thought compellingly vivid. -- Malcolm Heath, The Times Literary Supplement
Unfamiliar connections and perspectives will make [this] book important for professionals, and the vivid portrayal of an intense and exotic mental world will appeal to the serious general reader. -- Jasper Griffin, The New York Review of Books
An intriguing book.... Padel ranges widely over the medical writers, epic, comedy, and philosophy. She fortifies and enriches her arguments with the work of scholars in anthropology, psychology, and religion.... A poet herself, she is very sensitive to the possibilities and associations of language. -- Michael R. Halleran, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Ruth Padel's close reading of the language of the extant plays will be helpful to scholars and provide a window onto ancient Greek ideas of the mind for the general reader. -- "The Washington Times --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Unfamiliar connections and perspectives will make [this] book important for professionals, and the vivid portrayal of an intense and exotic mental world will appeal to the serious general reader. -- Jasper Griffin, The New York Review of Books
An intriguing book.... Padel ranges widely over the medical writers, epic, comedy, and philosophy. She fortifies and enriches her arguments with the work of scholars in anthropology, psychology, and religion.... A poet herself, she is very sensitive to the possibilities and associations of language. -- Michael R. Halleran, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Ruth Padel's close reading of the language of the extant plays will be helpful to scholars and provide a window onto ancient Greek ideas of the mind for the general reader. -- "The Washington Times --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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A rich and brilliant study... [Padel] helps us to see not just that Greek ways of thinking are so profoundly alien, but also how they make sense and could be coherently lived. Her skill as a writer ... make[s] those foreign patterns of thought compellingly vivid. -- Malcolm Heath, The Times Literary Supplement Unfamiliar connections and perspectives will make [this] book important for professionals, and the vivid portrayal of an intense and exotic mental world will appeal to the serious general reader. -- Jasper Griffin, The New York Review of Books An intriguing book... Padel ranges widely over the medical writers, epic, comedy, and philosophy. She fortifies and enriches her arguments with the work of scholars in anthropology, psychology, and religion... A poet herself, she is very sensitive to the possibilities and associations of language. -- Michael R. Halleran, Bryn Mawr Classical Review Ruth Padel's close reading of the language of the extant plays will be helpful to scholars and provide a window onto ancient Greek ideas of the mind for the general reader. -- "The Washington Times
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