Bernard Knox (1914–2010) was an English classicist. He was the first director 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.
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The Wild Women of Greece
May 15, 2003
Gender and the City in Euripides’ Political Plays
by Daniel Mendelsohn
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Love in Hell
November 15, 2001
Inferno
by Dante Alighieri, a verse translation from the Italianby Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander
Dante: A Life in Works
by Robert Hollander
Dante
by R.W.B. Lewis
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Not Bisexual
November 15, 2001
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Liberating a Masterpiece
May 17, 2001
Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme liberata) Torquato Tasso, edited and translated from the Italian by Anthony M. Esolen
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Stairway to Heaven
September 21, 2000
Purgatorio
by Dante Alighieri, translated by Merwin W.S.
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Virgil the Great
November 18, 1999
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
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Genius Con Brio
September 23, 1999
The Charterhouse of Parma
by Stendhal, translated by Richard Howard
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Another Scipio
February 18, 1999
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Under the Volcano
November 19, 1998
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
by Anne Carson
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Horace, Our Contemporary
June 11, 1998
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
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Playboy of the Roman World
January 15, 1998
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
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The Crack in the Teacup
April 10, 1997
W.H. Auden: Prose and Travel Books in Prose and Verse, Volume I, 1926-1938 edited by Edward Mendelson
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Victims and Executioners
October 31, 1996
The Jews: History, Memory and the Present by Pierre Vidal-Naquet, translated and edited by David Ames Curtis
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Author, Author
November 16, 1995
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Our Dante
October 19, 1995
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
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The Spanish Civil War: An Exchange
February 16, 1995
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Poets of the Spanish Tragedy
December 22, 1994
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
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In Another Country
December 1, 1994
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, 19361938 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
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The Greek Way
November 18, 1993
Shame and Necessity by Bernard Williams
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‘A Small Correction’
July 15, 1993
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A Dangerously Modern Poet
December 3, 1992
Catullus by Charles Martin
The Poems of Catullus translated by Charles Martin
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Achilles in the Caribbean
March 7, 1991
Omeros by Derek Walcott
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Los Olvidados
June 29, 1989
The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance by John Boswell
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Attic Exits
April 28, 1988
Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman by Nicole Loraux, translated by Anthony Forster
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‘The Spanish Tragedy’: An Exchange
June 25, 1987
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The Spanish Tragedy
March 26, 1987
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, 193639 by Jim Fyrth
Prisoners of the Good Fight: The Spanish Civil War, 19361939 by Carl Geiser
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The Theater of Ethics
December 4, 1986
The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy by Martha C. Nussbaum
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Subversive Activities
December 19, 1985
Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia in Nineteenth-Century England by Louis Crompton
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Caviar to the General
October 24, 1985
Pindar by D.S. Carne-Ross
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Shrinking Michelangelo
December 6, 1984
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Visions of the Grand Prize
September 27, 1984
ParisRomeAthens: Travels in Greece by French Architects in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The Grand Prix de Rome: Paintings from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts 17971863 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
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Housman at Work & Play
June 14, 1984
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Closet Modern
March 15, 1984
A.E. Housman: A Critical Biography by Norman Page
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Judeo-Italian
February 2, 1984
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The Triumph of the Italian Jews
August 18, 1983
Prisoners of Hope: The Silver Age of the Italian Jews, 1924-1974 by H. Stuart Hughes
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Greece à la Française
March 3, 1983
Le Chasseur noir: Formes de pensée et formes de société dans le monde grec by Pierre Vidal-Naquet
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Classic Classicists
September 23, 1982
History of Classical Scholarship by U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, translated by Alan Harris, edited with an introduction and notes by Hugh Lloyd-Jones
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The Greek Conquest of Britain
June 11, 1981
The Victorians and Ancient Greece by Richard Jenkyns
The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain by Frank M. Turner
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The Spanish Anarchists: An Exchange
April 16, 1981
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Remembering Madrid
November 6, 1980
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
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The Socratic Method
January 25, 1979
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
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Triumph of a Heretic
June 29, 1978
The World of Odysseus by M.I. Finley
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Xenophon’s Flute Girls
May 4, 1978
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A Four Handkerchief Tragedy
February 9, 1978
Euripides: Iphigeneia at Aulis translated by W.S. Merwin, translated by George E. Dimock Jr.
Iphigenia a film directed by Michael Cacoyannis
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Chez Atreus
July 14, 1977
Agamemnon by Aeschylus, directed by Andrei Serban. at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, New York
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Dogs and Heroes in Homer
April 29, 1976
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
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Greek for the Greekless
February 5, 1976
The Oresteia by Aeschylus, translated by Robert Fagles
The Bacchae of Euripides, A Communion Rite by Wole Soyinka
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Dryden & Oedipus
January 22, 1976
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Aeschylus Pinioned and Grabbed
November 27, 1975
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
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Crusty Christopher
August 1, 1968