Ebook: Who Killed Homer - Demise of Classical Education and Recovery of Greek Wisdom

Who Killed Homer? argues that if we lose our knowledge of the Greeks, we lose our understanding of who we are. With straightforward advice and informative reading lists, the authors present a highly useful primer for anyone who wants more knowledge of Classics, and thus of the beauty and perils of our own culture. For over two millennia in the West, familiarity with the literature, art, philosophy, and values of the Classical World has been synonymous with education itself. The traditions of the Greeks explain why Western Culture is so uniquely dynamic and why its tenets of democracy, capitalism, materialism, personal freedom, civil liberty, and constitutional government are now sweeping the globe. The failure of today's Classicists has meant that formal study of the origins of Western Culture is disappearing from American life at precisely the time when it is most needed to explain, guide, and warn the public about both the wonders and dangers of their own culture. Classical education is under assault and rapidly disappearing from American high schools and colleges. We are in danger of becoming illiterate about the ideas that created—and still have the capacity to sustain—Western Civilization.
This book explains what has been killed, who did it and why - and how we might still save Classics and the Greeks for another generation. With informative readings of the great Greek texts, the authors show how we might still revive the glory that was Greece. They rescue the Greeks from the assault of postmodernist scholars who disparage the thought and art of these “dead white European males.”
Who Killed Homer? is a must read for those who agree that knowledge of the classics initiates us into the beauty and peril of human experience.