Bernard Knox
Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Among his many books are The Heroic Temper, The Oldest Dead White European Males, and Backing into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal. He is the editor of The Norton Book of Classical Literature and wrote the introductions and notes for Robert Fagles's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
From the Review
May 15, 2003: The Wild Women of Greece
Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays by Daniel Mendelsohn
November 15, 2001: Love in Hell
Inferno by Dante Alighieri, a verse translation from the Italianby Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander
Dante: A Life in Works by Robert Hollander
November 15, 2001: Not Bisexual (letter)
November 15, 2001: Love in Hell
Dante by R.W.B. Lewis
May 17, 2001: Liberating a Masterpiece
Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme liberata) Torquato Tasso, edited and translated from the Italian by Anthony M. Esolen
September 21, 2000: Stairway to Heaven
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri, translated by Merwin W.S.
November 18, 1999: Virgil the Great
Virgil's Epic Designs: Ekphrasis in the Aeneid by Michael C.J. Putnam
Virgil: His Life and Times by Peter Levi
Virgil's Experience: Nature and History; Times, Names, and Places by Richard Jenkyns
September 23, 1999: Genius Con Brio
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal, translated by Richard Howard
February 18, 1999: Another Scipio (letter)
November 19, 1998: Under the Volcano
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson
June 11, 1998: Horace, Our Contemporary
Horace in English edited by D.S. Carne-Ross, by Kenneth Haynes, with an introduction by D.S. Carne-Ross
The Odes of Horace bilingual edition, translation by Ferry David
January 15, 1998: Playboy of the Roman World
The Poet and the Prince: Ovid and Augustan Discourse by Alessandro Barchiesi
After Ovid: New Metamorphoses edited by Michael Hoffman, by James Lasdun
Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes
The Metamorphoses of Ovid translated freely into verse by David R. Slavitt
April 10, 1997: The Crack in the Teacup
W.H. Auden: Prose and Travel Books in Prose and Verse, Volume I, 1926-1938 edited by Edward Mendelson
October 31, 1996: Victims and Executioners
The Jews: History, Memory and the Present by Pierre Vidal-Naquet, translated and edited by David Ames Curtis
November 16, 1995: Author, Author
October 19, 1995: Our Dante
The Inferno of Dante A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky, bilingual edition, illustrated by Michael Mazur, with notes by Nicole Pinsky, foreword by John Freccero
February 16, 1995: The Spanish Civil War: An Exchange
December 22, 1994: Poets of the Spanish Tragedy
Edwin Rolfe: Collected Poems edited by Cary Nelson, edited by Jefferson Hendricks, introduction and notes by Cary Nelson
Edwin Rolfe: A Biographical Essay and Guide to the Rolfe Archive at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by Cary Nelson, by Jefferson Hendricks
A Moment of War: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War by Laurie Lee
December 1, 1994: In Another Country
Fallen Sparrows: The International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War by Michael Jackson
The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade by Peter N. Carroll
Prisoners of the Good Fight: The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1938 by Carl Geiser, preface by Robert G. Colodny
Remembering Spain: Hemingway's Civil War Eulogy and the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade edited by Cary Nelson, essays by Milton Wolff, by Cary Nelson. includes a tape of Hemingway's recording of the eulogy
Another Hill: An Autobiographical Novel by Milton Wolff
November 18, 1993: The Greek Way
Shame and Necessity by Bernard Williams
July 15, 1993: 'A Small Correction' (letter)
December 3, 1992: A Dangerously Modern Poet
Catullus by Charles Martin
The Poems of Catullus translated by Charles Martin
March 7, 1991: Achilles in the Caribbean
Omeros by Derek Walcott
June 29, 1989: Los Olvidados
The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance by John Boswell
April 28, 1988: Attic Exits
Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman by Nicole Loraux, translated by Anthony Forster
June 25, 1987: 'The Spanish Tragedy': An Exchange
March 26, 1987: The Spanish Tragedy
The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas
The Spanish Civil War: A History in Pictures introduction by Raymond Carr
Spanish Front: Writers on the Civil War edited by Valentine Cunningham
Voices Against Tyranny: Writing of the Spanish Civil War with an introduction by Stephen Spender, edited by John Miller
The Signal Was Spain: The Spanish Aid Movement in Britain, 1936–39 by Jim Fyrth
Prisoners of the Good Fight: The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 by Carl Geiser
December 4, 1986: The Theater of Ethics
The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy by Martha C. Nussbaum
December 19, 1985: Subversive Activities
Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia in Nineteenth-Century England by Louis Crompton
October 24, 1985: Caviar to the General
Pindar by D.S. Carne-Ross
December 6, 1984: Shrinking Michelangelo (letter)
September 27, 1984: Visions of the Grand Prize
Paris–Rome–Athens: Travels in Greece by French Architects in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The Grand Prix de Rome: Paintings from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts 1797–1863 by Philippe Grunchec
Le Grand Prix de Peinture: Les concours des Prix de Rome de 1797 à 1863 the US by the National Academy of Design) by Philippe Grunchec
June 14, 1984: Housman at Work & Play (letter)
March 15, 1984: Closet Modern
A.E. Housman: A Critical Biography by Norman Page
February 2, 1984: Judeo-Italian (letter)
August 18, 1983: The Triumph of the Italian Jews
Prisoners of Hope: The Silver Age of the Italian Jews, 1924-1974 by H. Stuart Hughes
March 3, 1983: Greece à la Française
Le Chasseur noir: Formes de pensée et formes de société dans le monde grec by Pierre Vidal-Naquet
September 23, 1982: Classic Classicists
History of Classical Scholarship by U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, translated by Alan Harris, edited with an introduction and notes by Hugh Lloyd-Jones
June 11, 1981: The Greek Conquest of Britain
The Victorians and Ancient Greece by Richard Jenkyns
The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain by Frank M. Turner
April 16, 1981: The Spanish Anarchists: An Exchange
November 6, 1980: Remembering Madrid
Miracle of November: Madrid's Epic Stand, 1936 by Dan Kurzman
The Spanish Revolution: The Left and the Struggle for Power During the Civil War by Burnett Bolloten
Beyond Death and Exile: The Spanish Republicans in France, 1939-1955 by Louis Stein
January 25, 1979: The Socratic Method
Eros in Greece by John Boardman, by Eugenio La Rocca, photographs by Antonia Mulas
Eros in Antiquity photographed by Antonia Mulas
Greek Homosexuality by K. J. Dover
June 29, 1978: Triumph of a Heretic
The World of Odysseus by M.I. Finley
May 4, 1978: Xenophon's Flute Girls (letter)
February 9, 1978: A Four Handkerchief Tragedy
Euripides: Iphigeneia at Aulis translated by W.S. Merwin, translated by George E. Dimock Jr.
Iphigenia a film directed by Michael Cacoyannis
July 14, 1977: Chez Atreus
Agamemnon by Aeschylus, directed by Andrei Serban. at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, New York
April 29, 1976: Dogs and Heroes in Homer
Nature and Culture in the Iliad: The Tragedy of Hector by James M. Redfield
A Companion to the Iliad (Based on the Translation by Richmond Lattimore) by Malcolm M. Willcock
February 5, 1976: Greek for the Greekless
The Oresteia by Aeschylus, translated by Robert Fagles
The Bacchae of Euripides, A Communion Rite by Wole Soyinka
January 22, 1976: Dryden & Oedipus (letter)
November 27, 1975: Aeschylus Pinioned and Grabbed
Aeschylus: Suppliants translated by Janet Lembke
Aeschylus: Seven Against Thebes translated by Helen Bacon, translated by Anthony Hecht
Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound translated by James Scully, translated by C. John Herington
August 1, 1968: Crusty Christopher (letter)
From New York Review Books
 | The World of Odysseus The World of Odysseus provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values. |
Books by Bernard Knox
Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles' Tragic Hero and His Time (1998)
Backing Into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal (1994)
The Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics (1993)
Essays Ancient and Modern (1989)
Word and Action: Essays on the Ancient Theater (1979)