Who Needs Greek?: Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism

ISBN-13: 9780521812283 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 336 str.

Simon Goldhill

Opis

Who Needs Greek? is an interdisciplinary study of arguments on what ancient Greece has meant to western culture from the ancient world to today. The battles between artists and literary critics, historians and journalists, politicians and scholars, are often violent, hilarious, and always passionate. This cutting-edge cultural history ranges from ancient Greece via the Renaissance to modern opera, and treats a central question of culture in a way which will intrigue academics as well as a more general audience.

Recenzje

'Goldhill's elegant and witty writing … made the reading highly pleasurable. This is surely the most innovative book on the classical tradition to cross my desk, and one from which I will continue to draw inspiration, as well as information. … a carefully constructed, deeply researched, and elegantly argued text. It asks some extremely important questions … and the answers it gives are fresh, concise, and often amusing. … Goldhill has made an impressive, innovative and convincing case that we do, as a society, need Greek.' Hermathena

Spis treści

List of illustrations; List of abbreviations; Introduction: shaking the foundations; 1. Learning Greek is heresy! Resisting Erasmus; 2. Becoming Greek, with Lucian; 3. Blood from the shadows: Strauss' disgusting degenerate Elektra; 4. Who knows Greek?; 5. The value of Greek. Why save Plutarch?; Conclusion: rainbow bridges; Works cited; Index.