A New and Enriched Edition of Ten Classics Lessons

The “classics” come from a remote past and have survived major historical catastrophes, such as the end of ancient civilisation and the darker centuries of the Middle Ages. The classics of the Greek and Latin traditions, the first pillars of Western culture as we know it today, are works that have shaped our imagination for millennia. With masterly flair, the author relies on the ineffable pleasure of his own personal taste and chooses the best exemplars to allow readers to enjoy fully the charm of ancient masterpieces. The dizzying journey starts in the Greece of Homeric epic, of tragedy, and historiography and then shifts to Rome, with its treasured literary legacy, rendered eternal by works such as Cicero’s Dream of Scipio, Virgil’s Aeneid, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses. This reading opportunity is further enriched by a wide selection of splendid works of art.

Piero Boitani is professor emeritus of English Literature and Comparative Literature at the Sapienza University in Rome; he is also a member of Italy’s Accademia dei Lincei.

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