With Herodotus
and Thucydides
among her guides, she aims to recuperate the ancient Greek civilisation.
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Anne Carson
AC
's poetry collection Men in the Off Hours, 2000, variously inhabits the minds (and bodies) of Tolstoy
, Lazarus, Freud
, Catullus
, Sappho
and Emily Dickinson
, not to mention the French...
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Harriet Smythies
She quoted Byron
and the Greek historian Thucydides
on her title-page, and dedicated the poem to the Spirit of 'The Times'—that is, the newspaper. A letter to the editor of the Times...
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Jane Ellen Harrison
Harrison was always engaged in debates with her colleagues at Cambridge
and elsewhere: her writing here was inspired in part by Gilbert Murray
's unorthodox translation of Euripides
' Hippolytus, published in 1902. Both...
