Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives

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2004
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Format: Paperback
Pages: 345
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Oct 2004
ISBN 10: 0226301192
ISBN 13: 9780226301198

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Love, Sex & Tragedy is great, and great fun, the kind of book you find yourself reading out to your other half as you go along-a sparkling, erudite, and amusing remedy for our collective historical amnesia, a book that persuasively argues that without an understanding of our classical roots we are stumbling in the dark, missing vital information about who we really are and why we do the things we do. What do we mean by democracy? Why and how do we mix up history and myth and at what price? Whom do we love and how? Which bodies do we want and why? How do we entertain ourselves, and to distract us from what horrors? Simon Goldhill forces us to examine what we increasingly ignore: our radical reliance on a history we barely know. --Zadie Smith (06/21/2004)

Author Bio

Simon Goldhill, the author or editor of many books, is professor of Greek literature and culture at King's College, Cambridge.