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Classics: Why It Matters

Classics: Why It Matters

Morley, Neville

Paperback

Series: Why It Matters

Ancient History GeneralGeneral Education

ISBN10: 1509517936
ISBN13: 9781509517930
Publisher: Polity Pr
Published: Jun 6 2018
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.40
Language: English

For generations, the study of Greek and Latin was used to train the elites of the western world. Knowledge of classical culture, it was believed, produced more cultivated, creative individuals; Greece and Rome were seen as pinnacles of civilization, and the origins of western superiority over the rest of the world.

Few today are willing to defend this elitist, sometimes racist, vision of the importance of classics, and it is no longer considered essential education for politicians and professionals. Shouldn't classics then be obsolete?

Far from it. As Neville Morley shows, the ancients are as influential today as they ever have been, and we ignore them at our peril. Not only do they have much to teach us about the past, but they can offer important lessons for the complex cultural, social and political worlds of the present.

Introducing Polity's Why It Matters series: In these short and lively books, world-leading thinkers make the case for the importance of their subjects and aim to inspire a new generation of students.

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