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"Drawing on ancient writers, from Aesop to Ovid, classicist and working farmer, Mark Usher compiles in this book an anthology of Greco-Roman passages illustrating how they thought about animals and…
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M.D. Usher
A delightful anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings celebrating country living — ranging from a philosophy of compost to hymns to the gods of agriculture
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Diogenes, M.D. Usher
An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformity
M. D. Usher
An extended study of the Homeric Centos, a long pastiche poem on a biblical theme composed by the Theodosian Empress Eudocia using only verses from the Iliad and the Odyssey.
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M. D. Usher (University of Vermont)
Plato’s Pigs is a rarity: a compelling, engaging book of broad learning and careful scholarship that is fully accessible to general audiences. Its subject - the origin of modern ideas…
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Seneca
A useful student edition featuring a selection of Seneca’s letters and essays.
M D Usher
What makes poetry effective? How does a poem work? What are its goals and aims?
Taking his cue from the musical form of mashup, in POEM M. D. Usher has…
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Charles William Parsons
Memoir of Usher Parsons, M. D., of Providence, R. I. (1870). This book, Memoir of Usher Parsons, M. D., of Providence, R. I, by Charles William Parsons, is a replication…
Usher Parsons, Charles W 1823-1893 Parsons
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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