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BBC Radio 3's The Essay strand explores the origins of Western culture. Greek and Latin voices is for all listeners who want to know more about the literature which underpins Western civilisation. ...Each week, in four lively, accessible and highly illustrated nightly programmes, a combination of scholars, writers and passionate classicists of every persuasion, explore various aspects of the author in question. In this programme author Tom Holland recalls his schoolboy passion for Herodotus' shaggy dog stories, complete with naked queens, dolphins and cannibals, and how, through Herodotus' account of the wars between Greece and Persia in the 5th century BC, he was given his first taste of tragedy.
BBC Radio 3's The Essay strand explores the origins of Western culture. Greek and Latin voices is for all listeners who want to know more about the literature which underpins Western civilisation. ...Each week, in four lively, accessible and highly illustrated nightly programmes, a combination of scholars, writers and passionate classicists of every persuasion, explore various aspects of the author in question. In this programme author Tom Holland recalls his schoolboy passion for Herodotus' shaggy dog stories, complete with naked queens, dolphins and cannibals, and how, through Herodotus' account of the wars between Greece and Persia in the 5th century BC, he was given his first taste of tragedy.
| Series: | The Essay: Greek and Latin voices |
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| First transmission date: | 2008-04-08 |
| Original broadcast channel: | BBC Radio 3 |
| Published: | 2008 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OU Digital Archive web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:15:00 |
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| Producer: | Beaty Rubens |
| Presenter: | Chris Pelling |
| Contributors: | Tom Holland; C. B. R Pelling |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Greek texts |
| Subject terms: | Greece--History--Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C; Herodotus--Criticism and interpretation |
| Production number: | AUDA333B |
| Available to public: | no |
