Wild Man (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies)

By Tobias Schneebaum

Book Overview

Here, translated into modern English, are the works of literature, history, science, oratory, and philosophy that constitute the mainstream of classical Greek thought and continue to influence world civilizations. This volume includes:
. Complete translations of Aeschylus Agamemnon, Sophocles Antigone, Euripides Medea, Aristophanes Frogs, and The Constitution of Athens by the Old Oligarch.
. Abridged translations of Homer s Iliad and Odyssey, The Homeric Hymn to Hermes, and Plutarch s Life of Tiberius Gracchus.
. Selections from Hesiod and Lucian; from twenty-eight lyric poets including Sappho, Pindar, and Meleagar; from the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides; and from eight Attic orators, including Isocrates and Demosthenes.
. Selections from the scientific writings of Hippocrates, Archimedes, and Galen.
. Selections from the pre-Socratic philosophers and from Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, and Epictetus.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299193446
• ISBN13: 9780299193447
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Explore your (savage) desire

Toby Schneebaum has recently been media-blitzed because of the recent documentary about his life, "Keep the River on Your Right." WILD MAN explores some of the same incendiary themes of that film (and the book it's based on). This wonderfully warm man writes provocatively about what many have felt, but few expressed: that each of us longs for the primal. To read WILD MAN is to glimpse the savage desire within us all.