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Who Killed Homer?

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Who Killed Homer?
AuthorVictor Davis Hanson, John Heath
LanguageEnglish
PublisherFree Press
Publication date
April 7, 1998
Pages290 (first ed.)
ISBN0684844532
480.7073
LC ClassPA78.U6 H36 1998

Who Killed Homer?: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom, is a 1998 book[1] by Classics scholars Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath.[2][3]

Reviewing Who Killed Homer? for Foreign Affairs, Francis Fukuyama described it as "ostensibly" focused on the decline of classical studies, but "really about the loss of a common, humanistic core in contemporary education and culture."[4]

Camille Paglia, writing in The Washington Post, called Who Killed Homer? "the most substantive by far of the academic critiques that have appeared in the past 15 years. This passionate protest, with its wealth of facts and its flights of savage indignation, is a must read for anyone interested in the future of higher education in the United States."[5]

References

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  1. ^ Hanson, Victor Davis; Heath, John (1998). Who Killed Homer?: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom. Free Press. ISBN 978-0-684-84453-4.
  2. ^ Doty, Ralph E. “The Classical Outlook.” The Classical Outlook, vol. 76, no. 1, 1998, pp. 35–35. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/43938160.
  3. ^ Knox, Bernard (5 April 1998). "Back To Basics; WHO KILLED HOMER? (book review)". Los Angeles Times. ProQuest 421295668.
  4. ^ Fukuyama, Francis. Foreign Affairs 77, no. 4 (1998): 121-22. doi:10.2307/20048981
  5. ^ Paglia, Camille (March 29, 1998). "Ancients and Moderns". The Washington Post.