Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom

Name: Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom
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ISBN: 9781893554269

ISBN-10: 1893554260

ISBN-13: 9781893554269

Edition: 2nd 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath

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With straightforward advice and informative readings of the great Greek texts, the authors show how we might still save classics and the Greeks for future generations. Who Killed Homer? is must reading for anyone who agrees that knowledge of classics acquaints us with the beauty and perils of our own culture.

Book details

List price: $17.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Encounter Books
Publication date: 4/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 323
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Victor Davis Hanson is the military historian who is a professor of classics at California State University, Fresno. He has written several popular books on classic warfare, including "The Other Greeks", "Who Killed Homer?", & "The Western Way of War". He lives in Selma, California.



Preface to the Paperback Edition


Prologue



Homer is Dead



Thinking Like a Greek



Who Killed Homer--and Why?



Teaching Greek is not Easy



What We Could Do



When All We Can Do is Read


Afterword: A Reply to Our Critics


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index