A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major
classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering Prizes
This book is the culmination of more than sixty years of a writing
life during which Frederic Raphael has returned again and again to
the literature and landscape of the ancient world. In his new book,
Raphael deploys his renowned wit and erudition to give us a vivid
mosaic of the complexities and contradictions underlying Western
civilization and its continuing influence upon contemporary
society. Tackling a broad range of topics, from the presumed
superiority of democracy to the momentum behind today's gay rights
movement, Raphael's often daringly heterodox view of the Greek and
Roman world will provoke, surprise, and, at the same time,
entertain readers. He shows how the interplay of fiction and
reality, rhetorical aspiration and practical cunning, are threaded
through modern culture.
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