Who Killed Homer?
The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom

Name: Who Killed Homer?
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
ISBN: 9781481575386

Author: Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath

Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach

Unabridged: 11 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 08/06/2012

Categories: Nonfiction, History, Social Science

Synopsis

For over two millennia in the West, familiarity with the literature, philosophy, and values of the Classical World has been synonymous with education itself. The traditions of the Greeks explain why Western Culture’s unique tenets of democracy, capitalism, civil liberty, and constitutional government are now sweeping the globe. Yet the general public in America knows less about its cultural origins than ever before, as Classical education rapidly disappears from our high school and university curricula.Acclaimed classicists Hanson and Heath raise an impassioned call to arms: 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.

About Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow in military history at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, Fresno. He is the author of over two dozen books, including The Case for Trump.

About John Heath

John Heath, author of Actaeon, The Unmanly Intruder, is associate professor of classics and chairman of the Classics Department at Santa Clara University, California. He lives in Menlo Park, California.

About Jeff Riggenbach

Jeff Riggenbach (1947-2021) narrated numerous titles for Blackstone Audio and won an AudioFile Earphones Award. An author, contributing editor, and producer, he worked in radio in San Francisco for more than thirty years, earning a Golden Mike Award for journalistic excellence.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephen on February 03, 2017

For hundreds of years, the study of the classics was at the heart of a liberal education, thought essential to the cultivation of free men. Yet today speaking Latin would be regarded as a sign of eccentricity, not erudition. People now attend university for technical expertise in fields like busines......more

Goodreads review by Ronald on February 02, 2017

Awesome. This book single-handedly caused me to read 10-20 "classics" books that I probably should have read in college. It's worth the cost just for the reading lists provided. If you've ever thought "why should I waste time learning about classical Greece?", this book answers that question clearly......more

Goodreads review by David on September 20, 2019

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Goodreads review by Brendan on January 19, 2012

The book is highly polemical, and the authors waste too much ink on long series to drive home their point. For example: Tanks in Iran, nerve gas in Iraq, epaulettes and steel helmets in Africa, military departments in South American universities, staff debate over air force doctrine in China, and mil......more

Goodreads review by Kris on January 17, 2018

Engaging writing. Very sarcastic humor. Highly critical in some places. His arguments are insightful and urgently need to be heard by all classic academics today (and this was written in 1998--think how much worse it has gotten since then!). I appreciate how the co-authors admit, in the beginning, th......more