Talking classics the shock of the old
"Why the ongoing fascination with the ancient world? This witty, approachable book asks why-for better or (sometimes) worse-antiquitycontinues to exert such a powerful hold on the contemporary imagination. Recalling a formative childhood encounter with a four-thousand-year-old piece of bread in a mu...
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Chicago, IL :
University of Chicago Press,
2026.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- A sense of wonder
- How to be modern?
- Rights and wrongs
- The case for classics
- Epilogue: the boy who breathed on the glass in the British Museum
- Further reading
- Acknowledgments
- List of illustrations
- Index.
