Who Needs Greek?: Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism

by Simon Goldhill

Book Overview

Does Greek matter? To whom and why? This interdisciplinary study focuses on moments when passionate conflicts about Greek and Greek-ness have erupted in both the modern and the ancient worlds. It looks at the Renaissance, when men were burned at the stake over biblical Greek, at violent Victorian rows over national culture and the schooling of a country, at the shocking performances of modernist opera - and it also examines the ancient world and its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521011760
• ISBN13: 9780521011761
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"