What the Greeks did for us /
"Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like "pandemic," a Freudian state of mind like the "Oedipus complex," or a replica of the Parthenon in a Chinese theme park, ancient Greek culture shapes the contours of our lives. Ever since the first Roman imi...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: what did the Greeks do for us?
- Back to the Greeks
- Political animals
- People (un)like us
- The invention of sex
- Word of mouth
- In pursuit of wisdom
- Facts and alternative facts
- Poetry matters
- The gospel truth
- Greek beauty
- Perfect buildings?
- Greeks on screen
- Sporty Greeks
- Greeks on stage
- Epilogue.
