The Oldest Dead White European Males: And Other Reflections On

The Oldest Dead White European Males: And Other Reflections On the Classics

â€œNo one carries his learning more gracefully than Knox. That is because he does not, like so many scholars, seal it off from the rest of life. Ancient and current wisdom communicate through him.â€ â€•Garry Wills
Should the ancient Greeksâ€•"the oldest dead white European males"â€•be kept alive in our collective memory? Why study them at all if, by passing their destructive ideas to the Romans and eventually to the rest of Europe, they may ultimately be responsible for much of whatâ€™s wrong with American society? In this â€œsupremely lucid and elegantâ€ book (The New Yorker), Bernard Knox poses and answers such fundamental questions, helping us to remember the astonishing originality of the ancient Greeks and all that we have learnedâ€•and continue to learnâ€•from them.
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 1994-09-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780393312331

The Oldest Dead White European Males: And Other Reflections On the Classics