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The oldest dead white European males and other reflections on the classics, Bernard Knox

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"In this illuminating book, Bernard Knox raises questions both fundamental and timely: Should the ancient Greeks - "the oldest dead white European males " - and all they stand for be kept alive in our collective memory? Is their legacy at all relevant to the way we live now?" "Multiculturalism and its accompanying reevaluation of Western history and culture have brought with them a heightened sense of the strangeness - the "otherness" - of the Greeks. Modern scholarship has relentlessly exposed the blind adoration of earlier generations and concentrated, in Knox's words, on "the dark underside of what the Victorians hailed as the Greek Miracle." So much of what the Greeks were and did seems, today, positively alien at best. (In the title essay Knox explores the ritual of sacrifice, the Greek sense of self, the institution of slavery, and the inferior position of women in Greek society.)" "Yet for all their flaws, the ancient Greeks literally invented philosophy, the theater, the concept of a national literature, competitive athletics, political theory, rhetoric and oratory, biology, zoology, atomic theory - one could go on. And through the Sophists they invented the very idea of the humanities, a group of studies that came into being "as an education for democracy, a training in free citizenship."" "We cannot simply discard what the recent critical examination of the ancient Greeks has unearthed. But we cannot at the same time forget - and Bernard Knox brings his immense learning and crystalline prose to bear in helping all of us remember - their astonishing originality, their central importance, and all that we have learned (and continue to learn) from them."--BOOK JACKET
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The oldest dead white European males and other reflections on the classics
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The oldest dead white European males and other reflections on the classics
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Bernard Knox
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Language
eng
Summary
"In this illuminating book, Bernard Knox raises questions both fundamental and timely: Should the ancient Greeks - "the oldest dead white European males " - and all they stand for be kept alive in our collective memory? Is their legacy at all relevant to the way we live now?" "Multiculturalism and its accompanying reevaluation of Western history and culture have brought with them a heightened sense of the strangeness - the "otherness" - of the Greeks. Modern scholarship has relentlessly exposed the blind adoration of earlier generations and concentrated, in Knox's words, on "the dark underside of what the Victorians hailed as the Greek Miracle." So much of what the Greeks were and did seems, today, positively alien at best. (In the title essay Knox explores the ritual of sacrifice, the Greek sense of self, the institution of slavery, and the inferior position of women in Greek society.)" "Yet for all their flaws, the ancient Greeks literally invented philosophy, the theater, the concept of a national literature, competitive athletics, political theory, rhetoric and oratory, biology, zoology, atomic theory - one could go on. And through the Sophists they invented the very idea of the humanities, a group of studies that came into being "as an education for democracy, a training in free citizenship."" "We cannot simply discard what the recent critical examination of the ancient Greeks has unearthed. But we cannot at the same time forget - and Bernard Knox brings his immense learning and crystalline prose to bear in helping all of us remember - their astonishing originality, their central importance, and all that we have learned (and continue to learn) from them."--BOOK JACKET
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Knox, Bernard MacGregor Walker
Dewey number
880.9/001
Index
index present
LC call number
PA3071
LC item number
.K58 1993
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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  • Greek literature
  • Civilization, Western
  • Literature, Modern
  • Greece
  • Literatura griega
  • Civilización occidental
  • Literatura moderna
  • Grecia
  • Receptie
  • Grieks
  • Letterkunde
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The oldest dead white European males and other reflections on the classics, Bernard Knox
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-136) index
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1 online resource (144 pages)
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online
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remote
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(OCoLC)1036751371
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The oldest dead white European males and other reflections on the classics, Bernard Knox
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Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-136) index
Extent
1 online resource (144 pages)
Form of item
online
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1036751371

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