A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts From the Cradle of Western Civilization [Audiobook] download free by J. C. Mckeown
- Listen audiobook: A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts From the Cradle of Western Civilization
- Author: J. C. Mckeown
- Release date: 2013/3/1
- Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780199982103
- Rating: 7.07 of 10
- Votes: 219
- Review by: Sariah Fryer
- Review rating: 7.62 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/13
- Duration: 3H47M40S in 256 kbps (60.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-09
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, WAV, FLAC, WMA Lossless, MP3, WMA (compression TAR.Z, RAR, ZIP, AZW, TAR, TAR.XZ)
- Total pages original book: 304
- Includes a PDF summary of 24 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 18M49S (4.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The ancient Greeks were a wonderful people. They gave us democracy, drama, and philosophy, and many forms of art and branches of science would be inconceivable without them. And yet they were capable of the most outlandish behavior, preposterous beliefs, and ludicrous opinions. Nearly everything in this book illustrates the not-quite-so wonderful aspects of Greek life and thought. Like its companion volume, A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities, this is an amusing and serendipitous miscellany of odd stories and facts, culled from a lifetime of teaching. In some ways, the book hopes to show how much the Greeks were like us. Politicians were regarded as shallow and self-serving. Fat people resorted to implausible methods of weight control. Even Socrates and the kingof Sparta used to entertain their children by riding around on a stick pretending it was a horse. Of course, their differences from us are abundantly documented, too-and the book may leave readers with a few incredulous questions. To ward off evil, were scapegoats thrown down from cliffs, fitted out withfeathers and live birds to give them a chance of survival? Did a werewolf really win the boxing event at the Olympic Games? Were prisoners released on bail so that they could enjoy dramatic festivals? Did Greeks wear an amulet, to promote virility, the penis of a lizard caught while mating? Did anyone really believe that Pythagoras flew about on a magic arrow? Other such mysteries abound in this wonderfully illustrated and charming journey into the 'glory that was Greece.'
- Other categories, genre or collection: Popular Beliefs & Controversial Knowledge, Literary Studies: General, Ancient History: To C 500 CE, Classical History / Classical Civilisation, European History
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 25.90 USD
- Dimensions: 144.78x210.82x30.48mm
- Weight: 430.91g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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