Who Needs Greek? : Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism
Editorial Reviews
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'... Goldhill enlists his reader in an argument which is scholarly, theoretical and thoroughly absorbing ... the overwhelming contribution that this book makes to textual studies is clear. Ultimately Who Needs Greek? demonstrates just how violent the cultural politics of identity are, and what is at stake if we forget that.' English
'Irony and playfulness are much in evidence throughout the pages of this delightful book ... it is all the more impressive that the author leaves us with a renewed sense of the genuine seriousness of contests over classical Greek language and culture in the long passage to modernity.' The Classical Review
'The writing is vivid and the narration forceful ... twenty illustrations enliven a text which [Goldhill] clearly wrote with relish as well as commitment.' Journal of Hellenic Studies
Book Description
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.
Who Needs Greek?: Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism,Simon Goldhill,Cambridge University Press,0521011760,Ancient - Greece,Anthropology - Cultural,Archaeology / Anthropology,Australian & Oceanian,Civilization, Modern,Greek influences,Greek language,Hellenism,History,Literary Collections,Literature: Classics,Study and teaching,Ancient (Classical) Greek,Europe,European history: BCE to c 500 CE,Greek language--Study and teaching--History,History / General,History of ideas, intellectual history,Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
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