Starting from Scratch: The Life-Changing Lessons of Aeneas - Brossura

Marcolongo, Andrea

 
9781609457495: Starting from Scratch: The Life-Changing Lessons of Aeneas
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ISBN 10: 1609457498 ISBN 13: 9781609457495
Casa editrice: Europa Compass, 2022

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From the best-selling author of The Ingenious Language comes a meditation on rebuilding, recovery, and renewal that is also a fascinating portrait of antiquity’s most complex and surprisingly modern hero.

In times of peace and prosperity, one can turn to Homer to learn valuable life lessons, to experience the thrills and terrors of war, and to read about hair-raising adventures in distant lands. But when things do not go as planned, when we unexpectedly find ourselves at the center of an epoch-defining upheaval, then, writes Andrea Marcolongo, we must look to Virgil’s Aeneas for an example of adaptability and resilience.

In Marcolongo’s fresh, nuanced portrayal, Virgil’s Aeneas emerges as a multiform, deeply human hero, striking in his vulnerability and capacity for empathy. His journey of rebirth and rebuilding, from the ruins of Troy to the shores of Italy, teaches us that when all seems lost, with hope, perseverance, and a little bit of luck, we can seek and find new beginnings.

“Marcolongo is today’s Montaigne…There is wisdom and grace here to last the ages.”—André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name

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Editore
Europa Compass
Data di pubblicazione
2022
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1609457498
ISBN 13 
9781609457495
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
243
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