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The Bad Boy Of Athens : From The Greeks To Game Of Thrones
Paperback Edition: 1
The Ancient Greeks are still very much alive.
Over the past two decades, Daniel Mendelsohn's reviews for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review have earned him a reputation as one of the greatest critics of our time. In this striking collection of essays, he shines a unique spotlight on our culture. Moving between the Latin classics and the modern likes of Virginia Woolf, Brideshead Revisited, Battlestar Galactica, and Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life, these essays expose the heart of antiquity - still beating in our art and our everyday lives.
In some essays, Mendelsohn shows how readily we still call on the Greeks and Romans as role models. In others, he illuminates the surprising modernity of canonical works - including Homer's interest in artificial intelligence. We see Sappho alongside Girl, Interrupted, read the mythic side of Spider-Man, and come to understand a little better our relentless fascination with the Titanic. The collection also brings together - for the first time - a number of Mendelsohn's personal essays, including his 'critic's manifesto' and a touching memoir of his boyhood correspondence with the historical novelist Mary Renault.
Travelling an immense range of landmark books, plays, films, and age-old stories, the depth of Mendelsohn's thinking is as impressive as its breadth. This is a powerful collection of essays from the master of popular criticism.
Pages : 400
Publisher : Harper Collins
Publication date : 1900-06-29
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, History, Religion & Beliefs, Ancient Greek Religion & Mythology