Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1625584849
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (255 download)
Book Synopsis Parallel Lives - Vol. 1 by : Plutarch
Download or read book Parallel Lives - Vol. 1 written by Plutarch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of "Psychical Research," and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897), Magic and Religion (1901) and The Secret of the Totem (1905). He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works include Homer and the Epic (1893); a prose translation of The Homeric Hymns (1899), with literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies; and Homer and his Age (1906). He also wrote Ballades in Blue China (1880) and Rhymes la Mode (1884).