Tracing the development of Greek romances from 200 B.C. through twelfth-century Byzantium, Tomas Hagg analyses the content, plot and narrative techniques of the ancient novel, and explores the social and literary milieu in which the genre flourished.[...]
Greek and Roman biography embraces much more than Plutarch, Suetonius and their lost Hellenistic antecedents. In this book Professor Hagg explores the whole range and diversity of ancient biography, from its Socratic beginnings to the Christian acquisition of the form in late antiquity. He shows how[...]
Back in the 1970s, when a higher priority was placed on having big bushy sideburns than on maintaining racing safety, one of the most luminous stars on the racing scene was a Swede - Ronnie Peterson. This book is full of recollections by, and pictures of, people who in one way or another were a part[...]