01659nam a22002417a 4500 BJBSDDR 20251201112825.0 ta 251201s2020 enk||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781786078148 1786078147 spa BJBSDDR eng W872 2020 Womack, Philip 46295 How to teach classics to your dog : a quirky introduction to the ancient Greeks and Romans / Philip Womack London : Oneworld Publications, 2020 322 pages ; 21 cm Introduction These are the Dog Days : an introdogtion Cave-canem : dogs in classica life and literature A doggodly digest : who's who in myth Latro, latras, latrat : a note on language Dogface! : Homer's Iliad Argus the Dog : Homer's Odyssey Suckled by wolves : Virgil's Aeneid Changing dogs : Ovid's Metamorphoses It's a dog's life : the Ancient Greek Tragedians Hounded by love : Catullus and Sappho A painted dog : the beginning of history Doggy style? : sex and sewers The Greeks and the Romans laid the foundations of so much of what we read, listen to and watch today, from the baked pies of Game of Thrones to the Lotus-eaters of Love Island. In this unique introduction, Womack leads his beloved lurcher Una (and us) on a fleet-footed odyssey through the classical world. You'll learn to tell your Odysseus from your Oedipus, your Polyxena from your Polydorus ... but the story of the hunting dogs that tore their own master apart may be best left for another day."--Publisher's description lcc 0 BK cmc 126007 126007 0 0 lcc 0 0 APT BJB BJB APT 2025-12-01 0 W872 2020 00000196941 2025-12-01 15:31:44 1 2025-12-01 BK