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Who's Who in the Ancient World: A Handbook to the Survivors of the Greek and Roman Classics
Who's Who in the Ancient World A Handbook to the Survivors of the Greek and Roman Classics Author:Betty Radice Was Keats's Endymion the fellow who . . . or was that Hyperion? What links The Family Reunion with Les Mouches and Strauss's Elektra? What was Scipio's triumph? And never mind the centaurs, who were the Lapiths? — Whether we travel in Europe? or seek enjoyment in literature, in art, in opera, or a... more »t the concert, we are constantly up against Greek and Latin names, titles, and allusions. To meet this difficultly, Betty Radice has compiled this illustrated companion to the elite of classical antiquity and their most important appearances in Western art. Her work, which is fully indexed and cross-referenced, also contains an introduction tracing the fortunes of our classical legacy from Homer's Iliad to such latter-day works as Picasso's Vollard Suite and Cavafy's Oedipus.« less