| Description |
1 online resource (43 p.) |
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Ideas Roadshow Conversations Ser |
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Ideas Roadshow Conversations Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction -- The Conversation -- I. A Great Discovery -- II. Derveni Details -- III. An Ancient Culture War -- IV. Rose-coloured Glasses? -- V. Summing Up -- Continuing the Conversation |
| Summary |
This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Richard Janko, Gerald F. Else Distinguished University Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. This wide-ranging conversation covers Richard Janko's research on the Derveni Papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript from the 4th century BCE and the most important text relating to early Greek literature, science, religion and philosophy to have come to light since the Renaissance. This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, Discovering the Past, and questions for discussion at the e |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Janko, Richard, 1955- -- Interviews
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Derveni papyrus.
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Derveni papyrus. |
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Dionysia.
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Cults -- Greece.
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Cults.
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Dionysia.
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Religion.
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Greece -- Religion.
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Greece.
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| Genre/Form |
Interviews.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781771700665 |
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1771700661 |
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1771702494 |
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9781771702492 |
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