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[ SOLD OUT ] GOLDHILL, S., Who Needs Greek? Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 2003. VIII,326p. Paperback. With sticker from Galerie Orphée on back cover. Nice copy. 'Goldhill challenges his readers to answer the question 'who (still) needs Greek?' And he sets out to complicate any answer we might offer by broadening its historical context. His thoughtful, erudite, passionate, and very personal book centers on debates in the high Roman empire, early modern Europe, and Victorian England. (...) It is no easy thing to move from studying ancient Greece to understanding its modern appropriations (...), but G. proves an able cultural historian with a fine eye for unusual primary sources and reliable secondary bibliography. (...) G. is at his best when telling stories, reading texts and images, and images, and letting his readers draw their own judgements. (...) Irony and playfulness are much in evidence throughout the pages of this delightful book; G.'s heroes (notably Lucian and Erasmus) manifest them exuberantly; his villains (notably Luther and 'the grim Scaliger') lack them. So it is all the more impressive that the author leaves us with a renewed sense of the genuine seriousness of contests over classical Greek language and culture in the long passage to modernity.' (JOSIAH OBER in The Classical Review (New Series), 2003, pp.239-42). € 0 (Antiquarian) ISBN: 9780521011761