by Rex Warner · Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788435005463
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«Pericles el ateniense» is the historical novel by Rex Warner, published by Edhasa in hardcover (288 pages, in Spanish).
The dialogue and reflections of Anaxagoras serve as the guiding thread for this portrait of Pericles, Athenian statesman and strategist of the 5th century BC. The work reconstructs his political career, his military campaigns and the cultural environment of classical Athens, with Phidias, Sophocles, Euripides and Aspasia as figures of a decisive era for the West.
It belongs to the Narrativas Históricas collection by Edhasa; translation by Roberto Bixio from the original English.
For readers of historical fiction interested in classical Greece and the cultural and political splendor of Athens.
Reginald "Rex" Ernest Warner was an English classicist, writer, and translator who is best remembered for The Aerodrome (1941). Warner was described by V. S. Pritchett as "the only outstanding novelist of ideas whom the decade of ideas produced".
