Essays in Antiquity

by Peter Green

Essays In Antiquity

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1960

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Peter Morris Green was a British classical scholar and novelist noted for his works on the Greco-Persian Wars, Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age of ancient history, generally regarded as spanning the era from the death of Alexander in 323 BC up to either the date of the Battle of Actium or the death of Augustus in 14 AD.

Reviews

[sologdin · Rating 2 out of 5]

A reasonably competent contribution, including a broadside against conservatism in the teaching of classics, an analysis of Greek epic, an assessment of Greek historians, a lively essay about the usage of the stoics and the epicureans, a snipe at Caesar, a recitation about both guys named Pliny, a lengthy discourse on Roman satire, and some thoughts on translation in general via Aeschylus. Even though this is not a marxist presentation, it does seem consistent with cultural materialist method (especially as evident in Gary Taylor's Reinventing Shakespeare) in how it traces later usage in academic and mass culture of the writers at issue. The essay on Roman satire is very effective, tracing its lineage from rightwing pastoral grievances against the sin-city, which is a numbnut complaint that echoes through Burke into the Teabaggers and beyond--except they don't understand satire.

Recommended for those with a strange obsession with castration and readers who must have met men who remembered the Republic.