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Description:In this illuminating book, Bernard Knox raises questions both fundamental & timely: Should the ancient Greeks--"the oldest dead white European males"--& all they stand for be kept alive in our collective memory? Is their legacy at all relevant to the way we live now? Multiculturalism & its accompanying reevaluation of Western history & 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 & concentrated, in his words, on "the dark underside of what the Victorians hailed as the Greek Miracle." So much of what the Greeks were & did seems, today, positively alien at best. (The title essay explores sacrifice ritual, the Greek sense of self, slavery & the inferior position of women) Yet for all their flaws, the ancient Greeks literally invented philosophy, the theater, the concept of a national literature, competitive athletics, political theory, rhetoric, oratory, biology, zoology, atomic theory etc. Thru 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--& Knox brings his immense learning & crystalline prose to bear in helping all of us remember--their originality, their central importance & all we've learned & continue to learn from them.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Oldest Dead White European Males: And Other Reflections On The Classics by Bernard M. W. Knox (28-Dec-1994) Paperback. To get started finding The Oldest Dead White European Males: And Other Reflections On The Classics by Bernard M. W. Knox (28-Dec-1994) Paperback, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In this illuminating book, Bernard Knox raises questions both fundamental & timely: Should the ancient Greeks--"the oldest dead white European males"--& all they stand for be kept alive in our collective memory? Is their legacy at all relevant to the way we live now? Multiculturalism & its accompanying reevaluation of Western history & 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 & concentrated, in his words, on "the dark underside of what the Victorians hailed as the Greek Miracle." So much of what the Greeks were & did seems, today, positively alien at best. (The title essay explores sacrifice ritual, the Greek sense of self, slavery & the inferior position of women) Yet for all their flaws, the ancient Greeks literally invented philosophy, the theater, the concept of a national literature, competitive athletics, political theory, rhetoric, oratory, biology, zoology, atomic theory etc. Thru 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--& Knox brings his immense learning & crystalline prose to bear in helping all of us remember--their originality, their central importance & all we've learned & continue to learn from them.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Oldest Dead White European Males: And Other Reflections On The Classics by Bernard M. W. Knox (28-Dec-1994) Paperback. To get started finding The Oldest Dead White European Males: And Other Reflections On The Classics by Bernard M. W. Knox (28-Dec-1994) Paperback, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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