Opening Pandora's Box: Phrases We Borrowed From the Classics and the Stories Behind Them
Editorial MICHAEL O'MARA BOOKS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher MICHAEL O'MARA BOOKS
- ISBN13 9781782430230
- ISBN10 1782430237
- Type BOOK
- Pages 192
- Published 2013
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
Subjects
Diverse Dictionaries In EnglishOpening Pandora's Box: Phrases We Borrowed From the Classics and the Stories Behind Them
Editorial MICHAEL O'MARA BOOKS
Mainland Spain
Book details
It has been one of those days. You've worked like a Trojan, displaying titanic strength and stoic endurance to overcome the Herculean labours that have faced you in order to meet that deadline. We regularly employ classically-derived expressions in our everyday language, yet many of us have little understanding of the origin of these common phrases. But an incomplete classical education need no longer be your Achilles heel.Opening Pandora's Box offers a light-hearted yet fascinating look at the stories behind the expressions. For example, did you know that the phrase 'the face that launched a thousand ships' originates from the story of the kidnapping of Helen of Troy, but the actual line comes from a poem by Christopher Marlowe? Opening Pandora's Box provides a useful introduction to classical mythology as well as giving an insight into our language.