Name: Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths
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Red Thread: On Mazes and LabyrinthsA thrillingly original, labyrinthine journey through myth, art, literature, history, archaeology and memoir. The tale of how the hero Theseus killed the Minotaur, finding his way out of the labyrinth using Ariadne's ball of red thread, is one of the most intriguing, suggestive and persistent of all myths, and the labyrinth the beautiful, confounding and terrifying building created for the half man, half bull monster is one of the foundational symbols

his innovative deployment of language and metrical and musical virtuosity

With stylistic brilliance

wrathful Zeus banishes her to the remote island of Aiaia

wins the title

with supporting images

Daisy Dunn inverts this tradition and puts the women of history at the centre of the narrative

It is some of the best Latin poetry ever written

The first work of any great historian has always commanded attention

and arranged in two series according to complexity

This volume is designed to accompany the OCR A-Level specification in Latin (first teaching September 2016)

This edition will be invaluable for undergraduate and graduate students and scholars of Seneca's moral and intellectual development

which also features the original Greek on facing pages