Who Killed Homer?

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Who Killed Homer?: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom, is a 1998 book by Classics scholars Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath. [1] [2]

Reviewing Who Killed Homer? for Foreign Affairs , Francis Fukuyama described it as "ostensibly" focused on the decline of classical studies, but "really about the loss of a common, humanistic core in contemporary education and culture." [3]

Camille Paglia, writing in the Washington Post , called Who Killed Homer? "the most substantive by far of the academic critiques that have appeared in the past 15 years. This passionate protest, with its wealth of facts and its flights of savage indignation, is a must read for anyone interested in the future of higher education in the United States." [4]

References

  1. ↑ Doty, Ralph E. “The Classical Outlook.” The Classical Outlook, vol. 76, no. 1, 1998, pp. 35–35. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/43938160.
  2. ↑ Knox, Bernard (5 April 1998). "Back To Basics; WHO KILLED HOMER? (book review)". Los Angeles Times . ProQuest   421295668.
  3. ↑ Fukuyama, Francis. Foreign Affairs 77, no. 4 (1998): 121-22. doi:10.2307/20048981
  4. ↑ Paglia, Camille (March 29, 1998). "Ancients and Moderns". The Washington Post .
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