The Oldest Dead White European Males

副标题: And Other Reflections On the Classics

ISBN: 9780393312331

出版社: W. W. Norton & Company

出版年: 1994-9-17

页数: 144

定价: USD 17.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

Should the ancient Greeks - "the oldest dead white European males" - and their legacy have any relevance to the way we live now? So much of what the ancients were and did may now appear positively racist and sexist in this era of multiculturalism. Yet for all their flaws, the Greeks gave us Homer Sappho, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles and Thucydides, to name a few. They invented much of what we now take for granted: the idea of the humanities, philosophy, the theatre, competitive athletics, political theory, rhetoric and oratory, biology, zoology and atomic theory. In this book, Bernard Knox raises questions that are of fundamental importance for our age.