Volume 36, Number 16 · October 26, 1989
A Front-Line Classicist
By Jasper Griffin
Essays Ancient and Modern
by Bernard Knox
Johns Hopkins University Press, 312 pp., $32.50
An eminent professor of Greek publishes his collected essays. What does the reader expect to find? Not quite, I think, what he finds here. It is not only the subject matter, which ranges from Hesiod to Natalia Ginzburg and from Greek tragedy to the politics of the 1930s. There is also the personality, strong and distinctive, of the author. As an undergraduate at Cambridge Bernard Knox neglected his classical studies for left-wing politics. At a Blackshirt (fascist) rally
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