The Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics

The Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics
Author: Bernard Knox
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1993
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780393034929

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Should the ancient Greeks - the oldest dead white European males - and their legacy have any relevance to the way we live now? So much of what the ancients were and did may now appear positively racist and sexist in this era of multiculturalism.

The Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics

The Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics
Author: Bernard Knox
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1993
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780393312331

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"No one carries his learning more gracefully than Knox. That is because he does not, like so many scholars, seal it off from the rest of life. Ancient and current wisdom communicate through him." --Garry Wills

Essays Ancient and Modern

Essays Ancient and Modern
Author: Bernard Knox
Publisher:
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN:

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Linked by the events of Bernard Knox's remarkable life, the twenty-five chapters of "Essays Ancient and Modern" cover subjects ranging from Hesiod, Homer, and Thucydides to Auden, Forster, and the Spanish Civil War. With a masterful eye for the telling detail, Knox continually reminds us that we share the present with antiquity's living past. A soldier in Italy finds a battered book in the rubble of a bombed-out firehouse-- and opens it to read Virgil's denunciation of war. An illiterate Greek bard composes a garbled Homeric song to celebrate the recent heroism of local partisans. A traveler heading north from modern Athens must choose between the Sacred Way-- or the NATO Road.

Who Killed Homer?

Who Killed Homer?
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher: Encounter Books
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 1893554260

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With advice and informative readings of the great Greek texts, this title shows how we might save classics and the Greeks. It is suitable for those who agree that knowledge of classics acquaints us with the beauty and perils of our own culture.

Backing Into the Future

Backing Into the Future
Author: Bernard Knox
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1994
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780393331172

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Who has brought the world of ancient Greece and Rome to life for the uninitiated reader and scholar alike.

Not All Dead White Men

Not All Dead White Men
Author: Donna Zuckerberg
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2018-10-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674989821

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A Times Higher Education Book of the Week A virulent strain of antifeminism is thriving online that treats women’s empowerment as a mortal threat to men and to the integrity of Western civilization. Its proponents cite ancient Greek and Latin texts to support their claims—from Ovid’s Ars Amatoria to Seneca and Marcus Aurelius—arguing that they articulate a model of masculinity that sustained generations but is now under siege. Not All Dead White Men reveals that some of the most controversial and consequential debates about the legacy of the ancients are raging not in universities but online. “A chilling account of trolling, misogyny, racism, and bad history proliferated online by the Alt-Right... Zuckerberg makes a persuasive case for why we need a new, more critical, and less comfortable relationship between the ancient and modern worlds in this important and very timely book.” —Emily Wilson, translator of The Odyssey “Explores how ideas about Ancient Greece and Rome are used and misused by antifeminist thinkers today.” —Time “Zuckerberg presciently analyzes these communities’...embrace of stoicism as a self-help tool to gain confidence, jobs, and girlfriends. Their adoration of men like Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Ovid...is founded in a limited and distorted interpretation of ancient philosophy...lending heft and authority to sexism and abuse.” —The Nation “Traces the application—and misapplication—of classical authors and texts in online communities that see feminism as a threat.” —Bitch Media

Word and Action

Word and Action
Author: Bernard Knox
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1979
Genre: Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN: 9780801834097

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Bernard Knox is one of the most important and influential critics of Greek drama writing today. His books, articles, reviews, and essays have educated a generation of readers, from scholars studying original texts to those who know the Oresteia only in translation.

Learned Ignorance in the Medicine Bow Mountains

Learned Ignorance in the Medicine Bow Mountains
Author: Craig Clifford
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9401206597

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This book is an apologia for the rooted intellectual against the disdainful condescension of the cosmopolitan intellectual—an apology in the Socratic sense of the word. It reflects the author’s Texas rootedness unapologetically and offers a polemical but thoughtful indictment of the intellectual prejudice against rootedness; but it is ultimately about the universal human struggle with origins.

Essays Ancient and Modern

Essays Ancient and Modern
Author: Bernard Knox
Publisher:
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN:

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Linked by the events of Bernard Knox's remarkable life, the twenty-five chapters of "Essays Ancient and Modern" cover subjects ranging from Hesiod, Homer, and Thucydides to Auden, Forster, and the Spanish Civil War. With a masterful eye for the telling detail, Knox continually reminds us that we share the present with antiquity's living past. A soldier in Italy finds a battered book in the rubble of a bombed-out firehouse-- and opens it to read Virgil's denunciation of war. An illiterate Greek bard composes a garbled Homeric song to celebrate the recent heroism of local partisans. A traveler heading north from modern Athens must choose between the Sacred Way-- or the NATO Road.