HEREDITAS. SEVEN ESSAYS ON THE MODERN EXPERIENCE OF THE CLASSICAL Edited with Introduction

Will, Frederic (Ed. )

ISBN 10: 0292732651 / ISBN 13: 9780292732650

Verlag: University of Texas Press, 1964

DJ is a bit tattered with tears, chipping and creasing. DJ has a bit of shelfwear with acquisition date in pen to ffep. ; 213 pages. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 19509

Inhaltsangabe:

Is Ancient Greece still meaningful to the twenty-first-century world? The vitality of the classical tradition, which has been a long-enduring and important element in our culture, is the concern of the seven scholars who in this book present their answers to this question.

In various ways their essays support editor Frederic Will's statement that the "complex and mature group of awarenesses" embodied in the classical tradition still help to maintain the continuity of human culture, thus sharing in the unbroken process of developing a Western civilization. These awarenesses are not self-perpetuating but must be sustained by the guardians of tradition—schools, literary creators and critics, libraries, and scholars. In this book, particular attention is devoted to the literary creators. In discussing the impact of Greek myth, Greek literature, and Greek philosophy on modern writers, the present essayists try to determine how alive Greek classical culture is today, how meaningful it is, and how it can be perpetuated. Through their presentations in these seven essays, the contributors prove that the tradition does not suffer from lack of able guardians.

These studies in the interpretation of literature and thought afford stimulating evidence that the classical tradition is still alive in our modern age.

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Titel: HEREDITAS. SEVEN ESSAYS ON THE MODERN ...
Verlag: University of Texas Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1964
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
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