The Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the ClassicsW. 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. |
Contenido
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 Vista previa limitada - 1993 |
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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