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 denunciation of war. An illiterate Greek bard composes a
garbled Homeric song to celebrate the recent heroism of local
partisans. A traveler heading north from modern Athens must choose
between the Sacred Way-- or the NATO Road.
Whether the subject is the role of women in ancient Athens or
the novelists of modern Italy, the wit and erudition of Bernard
Knox never fail to instruct and delight. Now in paperback, "Essays
Ancient and Modern" takes it place alongside the distinguished
essays of Knox's "Word and Action," a book whose title brings
together, in the words of Anthony Hecht, "the double strand of his
admirable career."
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