The Pageant Of Greece – Edited by Sir Richard Livingstone

Description

It would be difficult to speak too warmly in praise of Mr. Livingstone’s Pageant of Greece. As an invitation to that noble banquet which Greek literature, Greek philosophy and Greek art provide for those worthy to partake thereof we can imagine nothing more alluring. With sympathy, with simplicity, with true understanding, and always with perfect taste, Mr. Livingstone tells of the delights which the man who loves learning, beauty, and the satisfaction of the soul, can draw from the Greeks. And he does this without ever for one instant patronising the great and gracious spirits to whom he is acting as introducer. Again, it is without any patronage towards the English reader that he calls him to the symposium of the Hellenes and bids him “their home and feast to share.” He wants the two souls to flow together, the English and the Greek. But all through one can see that he recognizes that the Englishman, the man of Shakespeare’s kin, the sharer of that splendid heritage which spreads from Chaucer to the poets and men of letters of to-day is well worthy to sit at the table at which sit the philosophers, the poets, and the men of science of Greece—Socrates and Aristotle, Plato and Herodotus, Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes and Menander.

Price: 180.00

Edition: Tenth edition

Published: 1968

Publishers: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 1868121380

Condition: Dust jacket and hardcover in good condition – Covered in protective plastic sleeve. Internally clean and tightly bound, with the odd note in pencil.