WARNER, Rex.
Pericles The Athenian.
London: Collins , 1963.
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"What I should prefer is that you should fix your eyes on Athens as she really is, and should fall in love with her": First edition of Rex Warner's Pericles The Athenian
First edition of the award-winning author's work on Athens in the age of Pericles. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with wear and a few small chips and closed tears to the extremities. Jacket design by Charles Gorham.
In art and politics, in science and philosophy, our ideas and even the very words we use to express them are, for the most part, Greek in derivation. And Athens in the age of Pericles epitomizes Greek Civilization. "The only outstanding novelist of ideas whom the decade of ideas produced" (V. S. Pritchett).
Pericles The Athenian.
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