(Part 2) Best rennaissance literary criticism books according to redditors
We found 57 Reddit comments discussing the best rennaissance literary criticism books. We ranked the 24 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Persian mythology, as collected in the Book of Kings for example
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnameh
There's a comic book version http://www.theshahnameh.com/ and classic translations
http://www.amazon.com/Shahnameh-Persian-Kings-Penguin-Classics/dp/0143108328/
This includes the exploits of Rostam, the Persian equivalent of Hercules, who weilds an ox-headed mace http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/gorz and was raised by the great Simorgh and who captured the White Demon in a cave on Mount Demavand near modern Tehran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostam#Birth_and_early_life
The Victorians liked Persian things and so translated the tragedy of Rostam and Sohrab, by Matthew Arnold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostam_and_Sohrab#Adaptations
Read this in an honors class in college. It's a really good mix of different types of philosophies.
If you're interested I highly recommend the Annping Chin translation of the Confucian Analects. The Analects are hard to get a grasp on because they're so specific to Chinese ideas of propriety and manners, so a translation pretty much always has to be annotated. Her annotation is particularly clear and illuminating for Westerners.
> [Thomism] certainly doesn't prevent scientific discovery
Well, neither do the teachings of Deepak Chopra.
> Good arguments against the A-T heritage would be welcomed
I've heard good things about Kenny.