Perhaps best known for his widely acclaimed translations of the
Greek tragedies and Herodotus's "History, " as well as his edition
of Hobbes's "Thucydides, " David Grene has also had a major impact
as a teacher and interpreter of texts both ancient and modern. In
this book, distinguished colleagues and former students explore the
imaginative force of literature and history in articulating and
illuminating the human condition.
Ranging as widely as Grene's own interests in Greek and Roman
antiquity, in drama, poetry, and the novel, in the art of
translation, and in English history, these essays include
discussions of the "Odyssey" and "Ulysses, " the "Metamorphoses" of
Ovid and Apuleius, Mallarme's English and T. S. Eliot's religion,
and the mutually antipathetic minds of Edmund Burke and Thomas
Jefferson. The introduction by Todd Breyfogle sketches for the
first time the contours of Grene's own thought.
Classicists, political theorists, intellectual historians,
philosophers, and students of literature will all find much of
value in the individual essays here and in the juxtaposition of
their themes.
Contributors: Saul Bellow, Seth Benardete, Todd Breyfogle,
Amirthanayagam P. David, Wendy Doniger, Mary Douglas, Joseph N.
Frank, Victor Gourevitch, Nicholas Grene, W. R. Johnson, Brendan
Kennelly, Edwin McClellan, Francoise Meltzer, Stephanie Nelson,
Conor Cruise O'Brien, Martin Ostwald, Robert B. Pippin, James
Redfield, Sandra F. Siegel, Norma Thompson, and David Tracy
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