Nigel Spivey
Nigel Spivey is the author of The Ancient Olympics: A History, among other books. A professor of classics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Spivey was the host of a public television documentary about the origins of art and how it defines us as humans called How Art Made the World.
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Songs on Bronze
- By: Nigel Spivey
- Narrator: Yuri Rasovsky
- Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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Songs on Bronze is the first major retelling of Greek mythology in half a century; a set of lively, racy, dramatic versions of the great myths which, in a multicultural society, are recognized more than ever as stories without equal.
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