Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal

Knox, Bernard MacGregor Walker:

ISBN 10: 0393035956 / ISBN 13: 9780393035957

Verlag: WW Norton & Co 02.1994., 1994

Beschreibung

352 Seiten Fresh and clean copy in good condition. Frisches und sauberes Exemplar in gutem Zustand. Contents: I. Poets and Heroes - Godlike Achilles - What did Achilles look like? - Caviar to the General - The Poet as Prophet - Passion and Playfulness - The Poet in Exile - II. Men, Gods, and Cities - The Athenian Century - The God as Prophet - How Should We Live? - Poet and Polis - And in Better Condition - Philosopher and Polis - Two Emperors - Los Olvidados - III. Renewals - Odysseus of Arabia - On Two Fronts - America s Rome - Geistosgeschichte and Quatsch - Achilles in the Caribbean ISBN 9780393035957 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 536.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal
• Verlag: WW Norton & Co 02.1994.
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0393035956
• ISBN-13: 9780393035957
• Einband: , Softcover/Paperback
• Zustand: Gut
• Gewicht: 536 Gramm
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Inhaltsangabe

"Backing into the Future" encompasses the many lives of Bernard Knox - historian, literary critic and defender of the humanities - a man who has brought the classical world to life for the uninitiated reader and scholar alike. Opening with a group of essays on heroes and poets (exploring such topics as the character of Achilles and Ovid in exile), the book moves on to "Men, Gods and Cities" (essays ranging in subject from the Delphic Oracle to the trial of Socrates). Knox closes his collection with diverse reflections on the survival and transformation of the classics in the present age.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC.