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Acclaimed classicist James Romm translates surviving pieces of timeless wisdom from the lost plays of ancient Athens in his new book.
“The truly happy man ought to stay at home.”
“Hunger, and lack of coin, put a stop to love.”
and more...Some prompt “aha” moments, others offer wit or dark humor, and still others express penetrating moral insights.
James Romm is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College and editor of the Ancient Lives biography series from Yale University Press. He is the author of several other studies of Greek and Roman history, and his reviews and essays appear regularly in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Review of Books.
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Oblong Books [Rhinebeck], 6422 Montgomery Street, Rhinebeck, United States
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