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

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W. W. Norton & Company, 1993 - 144 páginas
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.
 

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FOREWORD II
11
THE OLDEST DEAD WHITE EUROPEAN MALES
25
THE WALLS OF THEBES
69
THE CONTINUITY OF GREEK CULTURE
107
NOTES ON SOURCES
131
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The Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics
Bernard Knox
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Aeschylus Amphion ancient Greeks anthropology Antigone argument argument from silence aristocrat Aristophanes Athenian democracy Athens audience authority BERNARD KNOX Cambridge canon Cicero cient claim classical comedy course court DEAD WHITE EUROPEAN dialogue E. R. Dodds English epic essay Euripides example fact famous fifth century B.C. gods Greece Greek culture Greek literature Greek scholars Herodotus Homer Homer's characters humane studies husband ideal intellectual language learned liberal arts Linos Politis literary look Louis MacNeice Medea mind modern Greece moral myth Odysseus Oedipus OLDEST DEAD WHITE orator Oxford Pericles Persian persuasion philosophy Pindar Plato play poems poetry poets political professor Protagoras published rhetoric ritual Roman sacrifice sense slaves Snell's society Socrates Sophists Sophocles speak speech student teach tells tharevousa theater Thebes Thessaloniki things thought Thucydides tion tragedy University Press Victorian Western WHITE EUROPEAN MALES wife women word wrote York Zethus

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Bernard Knox was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire on November 24, 1914. After studying classics at St. John's College, Cambridge, he fought with the Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War. In 1939, he married Betty Baur and began teaching Latin at a private school in Greenwich, Connecticut. During World War II, he served in the United States Army where he parachuted into France to work with the resistance and went on to join the partisans in Italy. He received a Bronze Star and the Croix de Guerre for his service. He received a doctorate from Yale University in 1948. He also taught at Yale University, becoming a full professor in 1959, and became the founding director of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies, a position he held until 1985. He was an authority on the works of Sophocles and his first book was Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles' Tragic Hero and His Time (1957). He also edited the anthology The Norton Book of Classical Literature (1993). His essay appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic and The New York Review of Books. They were also collected in numerous books including The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy (1964), Word and Action: Essays on the Ancient Theater (1980), and The Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics (1993). He received numerous honorary degrees and distinctions during his lifetime including the George Jean Nathan Award for dramatic criticism in 1977; the Charles Frankel Prize of the National Endowment of the Humanities in 1990; and the Jefferson Medal of the Philosophical Society of America in 2004. He died of a heart attack on July 22, 2010 at the age of 95.

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TítuloThe Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics
Norton paperbacks. literature / criticism
AutorBernard Knox
EditorW. W. Norton & Company, 1993
ISBN0393034925, 9780393034929
Largo144 páginas
  
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