Essays Ancient and Modern

by Bernard Knox

Book Overview

Linked by the events of Bernard Knox's re arkable life, the chapters of Essays Ancient and Modern cover subjects ranging from Hesiod, Homer, and Thucydides to Auden, Forster, and the Spanish Civil War. With a masterful eye for the telling detail, KNox continually reminds us that we share the present with antiquity's living past. A soldier in Itlay find a battered book in the rubble of a bombed-out firehouse--and opens it to read Virgil's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801841070
• ISBN13: 9780801841071
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher