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

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For over two millennia, familiarity with the literature, art, philosophy, and values of the classical world has been synonymous with education itself. But today classical education is rapidly disappearing from American high school and university curricula, and as a result we are in danger of becoming illiterate about the ideas that created Western civilisation. In this book acclaimed classicists Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath explain what has been sacrificed, who did it and why. Hanson and Heath argue that if we lose our knowledge of the Greeks, then we lose our understanding of who we are. 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. This is must reading for anyone who agrees that knowledge of classics acquaints us with the beauty and perils of our own culture.

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Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist at California State University.