Classics of Greek Literature - Prijzen

Chaucer

Chesterton expounds the ‘genius of Geoffrey Chaucer' in this literary biography which explores both the writer and his time. He claims that Chaucer and his Age were ‘more sane, more normal and more ch...

Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades

At the beginning of the second century AD, Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote a series of pairs of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen. Their purpose is moral: the reader is invited to reflect on import...

Who Murdered Chaucer?

In this work of historical speculation Terry Jones investigates the mystery surrounding the death of Geoffrey Chaucer over 600 years ago. A diplomat and brother-in-law to John of Gaunt - one of the mo...

The Poetry of Allusion