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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.
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出版社周刊评论
In three erudite essays originally delivered as lectures, Knox stresses the relevance of the ancient Greeks (the ``dead white males'' of the title) to the modern world. Former director of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies, Knox ( The Norton Book of Classical Literature ) defends the modern teaching of the humanities as ``an education for democracy.'' While acknowledging the inferior status of women in ancient Greek society, he argues that women were a formidable presence in the household, and he finds in Greek epics, poetry and drama a wealth of assertive, active females. Knox portrays the Sophists, who taught rhetoric and poetry, as ``the first professors of the humanities.'' It was the Sophists, not Socrates, who ``brought theory down from the skies,'' he insists. He closes with an account of his year-long stay in Greece, where he found living ties between the country's ancient and contemporary language and culture. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Long-time scholar and classicist Knox (coeditor, The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces) offers three essays in defense of the ancient Greeks against their current and many maligners in the camps of the new academia. ``[The] revisionist case lacks cogency,'' declares Knox, arguing simply that the role of the ancients ``in the history of the West has always been innovative, sometimes indeed subversive, even revolutionary.'' As for the great fight over the ``canon,'' Knox refuses to be ruffled or alarmed, merely pointing out--perhaps optimistically--that if the classics are exchanged for other books, ``the new material will have to compete with the old, and if it is not up to the same high level it will sooner or later be rejected with disdain by the students themselves.'' Whether Knox sufficiently buttresses his arguments here to win the day in some imaginary and strenuously heated debate may not matter very much; his voice offers the high pleasures of enormous learnedness, great common sense, and simple clarity as he speaks (the essays all had their origins as talks) about the original meaning of the liberal arts, about the psychology and intellectual attitudes of the ancients--not avoiding their blemished views regarding women and slavery--and about the genuine contributions of the sophists, their best and deserved reputations besmirched for all of history by that zealous early promoter of political correctness, Plato.
Choice 评论
This volume consists of three essays originally given as (1) the 1992 NEH Jefferson Lecture, (2) the 1981 inaugural lecture at the opening of Yale's Whitney Humanities Center, and (3) the third in a series of Provost's Lectures at Ball State University in 1988. Combined, they constitute a civil and measured response to those who would deny "the Greek miracle" and fault it because of its patriarchal, noninclusive, and ethnocentric roots in a tiny society that excluded the political participation of women and was supported by a slavery that was, for the most part, mild but still slavery. The title essay reviews, to a degree, the criticism from feminists and multiculturalists while pointing out the positive contributions of the ancient Greeks (the roles of strong female characters in epic and tragedy, the pictures in literature of intimate family relations, criticism of that very male society which produced this same literature). "The Walls of Thebes," surveying the role that the humanities have played and continue to play in Western culture, concludes that the humanities "will prepare the young mind for the momentous choices, the critical decisions which face our world today." "The Continuity of Greek Culture" traces the author's own discovery of ancient Greek roots in modern Greek culture and shows how modern Greece can assist the student of classical Greece in renewing "contact with the ancient sources in hundreds of ways." Knox writes with wit, great clarity, great learning, and appreciation of the ancient and modern worlds. J. E. Rexine; Colgate University
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
The Norton Book of Classical Literature. Norton. Mar. 1993. c.868p. ed. by Bernard Knox. index. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.