{"product_id":"love-sex-tragedy-how-the-ancient-world-shapes-our-lives","title":"Love, Sex \u0026 Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eLove, Sex \u0026amp; Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eSimon Goldhill\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780226301198\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Chicago Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2005\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e345\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\"If you do not know where you come from, you will always be a child.\" Cicero wasn't talking about being a child in the sense of enjoying life in a state of ignorant bliss. He was, rather, adamant that those who don't understand their origins are consigned to a life without power or authority, without the ability to act fully in the world. \u003ci\u003eLove, Sex \u0026amp; Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e is acclaimed classicist Simon Goldhill's corrective to our state of ignorance. Lifting the veil on our inheritance of classical traditions, Goldhill offers a witty, engrossing survey of the Greek and Roman roots of everything from our overwhelming mania for \"hard bodies\" to our political systems. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Marx, Clark Gable, George W. Bush, Oscar Wilde, and Freud-Goldhill's range here is enormous, and he takes great delight in tracing both follies and fundamental philosophical questions through the centuries and continents to the birthplace of Western civilization as we know it. Underlying his brisk and learned excursions through history and art is the foundational belief, following Cicero, that learning about the classics makes a critical difference to our self-understanding. Whether we are considering the role of religion in contemporary society, our expectations about the boundaries between public and private life, or even how we spend our free time, recognizing the role of the classics is integral to our comprehension of modern life and our place in it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When Goldhill asks \"Who do you think you are?\" he presents us with the rarest of opportunities: the chance to let him lead us, firmly but with a wink, back two thousand years to where we are.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Love, Sex \u0026 Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives | Simon Goldhill | Paperback | 9780226301198 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks D 1783108","offer_id":67579592147096,"sku":"1783108","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71UFcqXJjaL.jpg?v=1790363512","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/love-sex-tragedy-how-the-ancient-world-shapes-our-lives","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}