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Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives
Simon Goldhill
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| #656617 in Books | 2005-11-01 | 2004-10-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.40 x6.00l,1.04 | File type: PDF | 345 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| An outstanding book.|By Bookworm|Professor Goldhill artfully leads the reader in with a discussion of sexual mores (a word he would never use) in fifth century BC Athens, and before he knows it, he - the reader - is grasping the organization, the thinking, the originality, and sheer brilliance of a people, a time, and a place. He quickly understands how we and our institutions|From Publishers Weekly|For Goldhill, the classics are indispensable to an understanding of today’s Western culture. Without a knowledge of basic Greek and Roman texts and ideas, our "buried life" and "ancient grounding," the modern citizen is lost—a
In Love, Sex & Tragedy Simon Goldhill lifts the veil on our inheritance of classical traditions and offers a witty, engrossing survey of the Greek and Roman roots of everything from our overwhelming mania for "hard bodies" to our political systems. Encompassing Karl Marx, Clark Gable, George W. Bush, Oscar Wilde, and Sigmund Freud, Goldhill takes great delight in tracing both follies and fundamental philosophical questions through the centuries and continents...
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