Out of Athens: The New Ancient Greeks

by Page duBois

The iconoclast of Classics, Page duBois refuses to act as border patrol for a sometimes fiercely protected traditional discipline. Instead, she incorporates insights from postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and postmodern theories into her nuanced close readings of ancient Greek texts. Contemporary theory and ancient texts are mutually transformed in the process. Out of Athens sets ancient Greek culture next to the global ancient world of Vedic India, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674064070
• ISBN13: 9780674064072
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"