Volume 40, Number 19 · November 18, 1993
The Greek Way
By Bernard Knox
Shame and Necessity
by Bernard Williams
University of California Press, 254 pp., $25.00
Bernard Williams's brilliant, demanding, and disturbing book is the fifty-seventh volume of the Sather Classical Lectures, which are delivered annually at Berkeley on a classical subject. Its title calls to mind the work of a predecessor in the series, E. R. Dodds, who called the second chapter in his book The Greeks and the Irrational,[1] 'From Shame-culture to Guilt-culture.' The echo is deliberate; Williams's preface makes admiring reference to Dodds, under whom he studied Greek at Oxford, as the author of 'one of the most helpful and enduring books in the series, and…one of the closest in subject matter to the concerns of this study.'
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