Description: When Worlds Elide responds to the various incarnations of 'the Greek' legacy that continues to mark our politics, our society, and our education. It offers both an elaboration of these incarnations and a critique of how they are understood and used politically, culturally, the...
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Brooke Holmes is Assistant Professor of Classics at Princeton University, USA. Her first book, The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Body in Ancient Greece, was published in 2009. She has also written on Lucretius, the Iliad, Euripides' Heracles, Plato, Aelius Aristides' Sacred Tales and the reception of epicureanism.
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"Anyone who has doubted the value of antiquity for the twenty-first century will come away from this book a true believer in the relevance of classics to the most pressing contemporary concerns. Far from offering easy solutions or facile analogies, When Worlds Elide boldly critiques classics itself in relation to nationalism, elites, material culture, and the structure of the university. This is a must-read resource-lucid, complex and exciting-for those interested in abiding questions: What makes a community? Who should lead? What is ethical? How do we reconcile money and political ambition?" --Richard P. Martin, Stanford University
"This exciting collection, with its stellar list of contributors, sets a bold agenda for the interdisciplinary study of classics and politics in the twenty-first century. It proves that it is indeed possible to conjoin theoretical insight with erudition and a passionate commitment to the enduring significance of Greek antiquity." --Josiah Ober, Stanford University