{"product_id":"of-gods-and-men-100-stories-from-ancient-greece-and-rome","title":"Daisy Dunn: Of Gods and Men [2019] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eDaisy Dunn offers a deeply researched collection of stories reflecting the eclectic richness and depth of the classical literary canon. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStriking a balance between the 'classic classic' (such as Dryden's translation of the \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e) and the less familiar or expected, \u003ci\u003eOf Gods and Men\u003c\/i\u003e ranges from the epic poetry of Homer to the histories of Arrian and Diodorus Siculus and the sprawling \u003ci\u003eTheogony\u003c\/i\u003e of Hesiod; from the tragedies of Aeschylus and Euripides to the biographies of Suetonius and Plutarch and the pen portraits of Theophrastus; and from the comedies of Plautus to the the fictions of Petronius and Apuleius. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOf Gods and Men\u003c\/i\u003e is embellished by translations from writers as diverse as Queen Elizabeth I (Boethius), Percy Bysshe Shelley (Plato), Walter Pater (Apuleius's \u003ci\u003eGolden Ass\u003c\/i\u003e), Lawrence of Arabia (Homer's \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e), Louis MacNeice (Aeschylus's \u003ci\u003eAgamemnon\u003c\/i\u003e) and Ted Hughes (Ovid's \u003ci\u003ePygmalion\u003c\/i\u003e), as well as a number of accomplished translations by Daisy herself. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dunn, Daisy","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46484391952723,"sku":"9781788546744","price":31.25,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/dunn-daisy-daisy-dunn-of-gods-and-men-2019-hardback-9781788546744-1152879611.jpg?v=1743289416","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/of-gods-and-men-100-stories-from-ancient-greece-and-rome","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}