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The New Old World: Classical Studies in America |
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Written by <a href='/community/profile/382-laurence'>laurence</a>
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Wednesday, 30 October 2002 01:18 |
Book: The Culture of Classicism, by Caroline Winterer
Review: The New Old World, thenewrepublic.com
"The classical profession has been subjected in recent years to a fierce assault from within its own ranks by Victor Hanson, whose books Who Killed Homer? and The Bonfire of the Humanities proclaim their apocalyptic outlook in their shrill titles. Hanson and his collaborators want us all to become Greeks again, whatever that may entail. But we can no more return to the Romantic Hellenism of Byron and Shelley than to Gildersleeve's principled but inadmissible advocacy of Southern slavery.
The main reason that classicism survives in America and elsewhere is precisely that it is so porous and so multiform. It can instruct and delight according to many different moral and political systems. "
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