Backing into the Future - The Classical Tradition & it?s Renewal: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal

Bernard Knox

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: W.W. Norton, 1994

0393035956 / 9780393035957

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***Inscribed by the Author*** Like new hardcover in a like new dust jacket. Dust jacket has minor scuffing. Author's inscription to the later Professor Peter Green on the front endpaper. 8vo. (8.25 x 1 x 5.5) Sound binding. Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes an index. 351 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Bernard Knox, "the foremost classicist of our time" (Maynard Mack), presents a collection of illuminating essays on diverse topics, united by their common defense of the classics, by their common concern that renewal and innovation go hand in hand with tradition, and by Knox's wit, humanity, and elegant prose. Backing into the Future opens with a group of essays on individual "Poets and Heroes" of antiquity (exploring such topics as Homers masterly psychological insight into the character of Achilles, the playful and startlingly obscene poetry of Catullus, and Ovid's poetry of exile). The book then spirals gracefully outward to "Men, Gods, and Cities" (including essays on the Delphic Oracle, the brief and glorious appearance of Athenian democracy in fifth-century Athens, the " quarrel" between Greek tragedy and Greek philosophy, and Caligula - an emperor who has been, Knox argues, the victim of centuries of bad press). The collection closes with reflections on "Renewals" - the survival and transformation of the classics into the present age - reflections that include critiques of Derek Walcot's brilliant narrative poem Omeros and T. E. Lawrences fascinating translation of the Odyssey, as well as thoughts on the problems of teaching the classics today. Backing into the Future encompasses the many lives of Bernard Knox - classicist, historian, literary critic, and defender of the humanities - a man who has brought the world of ancient Greece and Rome to life for the uninitiated reader and scholar.…

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Titel
Backing into the Future - The Classical Tradition & it?s Renewal: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal
Autor
Bernard Knox
Verlag
W.W. Norton
Erscheinungsjahr
1994
Zustand
Like new
Schutzumschlag
Like new
Einband
Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
0393035956
ISBN-13
9780393035957

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