The Oldest Dead White European Males

Should the ancient Greeks - "the oldest dead white European males" - and their legacy have any relevance to the way we live now? So much of what the ancients were and did may now appear positively racist and sexist in this era of multiculturalism. Yet for all their flaws, the Greeks gave us Homer Sappho, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles and Thucydides, to name a few. They invented m...

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Bernard Knox, director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies, is editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and coeditor of the landmark Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces. His books include: Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles' Tragic Hero and His Time; The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy; Word and Action: Essays on the Ancient Theater; and Essays ...

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