Essays Ancient and Modern

by Bernard Knox

Book Overview

Linked by the events of Bernard Knox's remarkable life, the twenty-five 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 Italy finds 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: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher