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In This Illuminating Book, Bernard Knox Raises Questions Both Fundamental And Timely: Should The Ancient Greeks - The Oldest Dead White European Males --and All They Stand For Be Kept Alive In Our Collective Memory? Is Their Legacy At All Relevant To The Way We Live Now? Multiculturalism And Its Accompanying Reevaluation Of Western History And Culture Have Brought With Them A Heightened Sense Of The Strangeness - The Otherness - Of The Greeks. Modern Scholarship Has Relentlessly Exposed The Blind Adoration Of Earlier Generations And Concentrated, In Knox's Words, On The Dark Underside Of What The Victorians Hailed As The Greek Miracle. So Much Of What The Greeks Were And Did Seems, Today, Positively Alien At Best. (in The Title Essay Knox Explores The Ritual Of Sacrifice, The Greek Sense Of Self, The Institution Of Slavery, And The Inferior Position Of Women In Greek Society.) Yet For All Their Flaws, The Ancient Greeks Literally Invented Philosophy, The Theater, The Concept Of A National Literature, Competitive Athletics, Political Theory, Rhetoric And Oratory, Biology, Zoology, Atomic Theory - One Could Go On. And Through The Sophists They Invented The Very Idea Of The Humanities

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Author

Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393312331

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Western

Rating

3.73 / 5 (18 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13