GRAZEBROOK, O.F. [OWEN FRANCIS] - Nicanor of Athens : The Autobiography of an Unkown CitizenCambridge, Cambridge University Press. 1946, 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Book, "Nicanor's story is an attempt to picture life in the great days of a great war.. The raw materials of my book are the cold lucid pages of Thucydides, who owned gold mines and who wrote history; the pamphlets of Plato who was a humanist, but who has a charm which is unique; the plays of Aristophanes the poet, which are inspired ed with that prophetic instinct which is the great gift of the comic Muse; and last the turgid pages of the egregious Xenophon." 359p. Maps on end papers. Near Fine/Near Fine - Slight Chips. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 21.75 | £UK 18.75 | JP¥ 3648] Book number 040390is offered by:
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