Greek To Us
the fascinating, funny and surprising ancient greek that shapes our world
$30.34
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
2 March 2026
Summary
Echoes of Greece: How Ancient Words Shape Our World
Ancient Greek lives on in our culture in surprising ways. Sometimes funny - the word for an actor, hupokrites, gives us ‘hypocrite’; sometimes beautiful - an astronaut is literally a sailor of the skies. And that’s before we get to the myths which gave us our Achilles heel or our Midas Touch. And what about crocodile tears, which comes from the Greek’s belief that crocodiles cried while eating their victims!
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399424790 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399424793 |
| Author: | John Davie, Harry Mount |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Continuum |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 2 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 135mm |
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About The Author
John Davie
John Davie was head of classics at St Paul’s School in London before becoming a lecturer at Trinity College, Oxford. He has published translations of Seneca, Horace, Cicero and Euripides. He is the co-author of Et Tu, Brute? (2022).
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