The Greeks are on trial. They have been for generations, if not millennia, from Rome in the First century, to Romanticism in the Nineteenth. We debate the place of the Greeks in the university curriculum, in New World culture - we even debate the place of the Greeks in the Europ…
The Greeks are on trial. They have been for generations, if not millennia, from Rome in the First century, to Romanticism in the Nineteenth. We debate the place of the Greeks in the university curriculum, in New World culture - we even debate the place of the Greeks in the Europ…
Ruprecht (humanities, Mercer U.) interrogates the way that ancient Hellenic thought and culture has been appropriated by other cultures, from the Roman Empire to the United States, in recognized and unrecognized ways. Touching on the religious ritual of the modern Olympics, the …