Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Harvard Classics, originally marketed as Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books, is a 50-volume series of classic works of world literature, important speeches, and historical documents compiled and edited by Harvard University President Charles W. Eliot. [1] [2] Eliot believed that a careful reading of the series and following the eleven ...
The Loeb Classical Library ( LCL; named after James Loeb; / loʊb /, German: [løːp]) is a series of books originally published by Heinemann in London, but is currently published by Harvard University Press. [1] The library contains important works of ancient Greek and Latin literature designed to make the text accessible to the broadest ...
Harvard University Press ( HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. [2] It is a member of the Association of University Presses. [3] After the retirement of William P. Sisler in 2017, the university appointed George Andreou as director.
The I Tatti Renaissance Library. The I Tatti Everyday Renaissance Library is a book series published by the Tatti University Press, which aims to present important works of Italian Renaissance Latin Literature to a modern audience by printing the original Latin text on each left-hand leaf (verso), and an English translation on the facing page ...
Earlier this year, Apple launched Apple Music Classical as a standalone music app that comes included in the price of Apple Music. It was an unusual move for a streaming platform perhaps more ...
Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies is a center for advanced research in the humanities located in Florence, Italy, and belongs to Harvard University. It houses a collection of Italian primitives, and of Chinese and Islamic art, as well as a research library of 140,000 volumes and a collection of 250,000 ...
Kirsopp Lake (7 April 1872 – 10 November 1946) was an English New Testament scholar, Church historian, Greek palaeographer, and Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Harvard Divinity School . He had an uncommon breadth of interests. His main lines of research were the history of early Christianity, textual criticism of the New Testament ...
Sophocles [a] ( c. 497/496 – winter 406/405 BC) [2] was an ancient Greek tragedian, known as one of three from whom at least one play has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus; and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, [3] but only ...