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Knox, Bernard MacGregor Walker was born on November 24, 1914 in Bradford, England. Son of Bernard and Rowena (Walker) Knox. came to the United States, 1939, naturalized, 1943.
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The first two chapters of this book isolate and describe the literary phenomenon of the Sophoclean tragic hero. In all but one of the extant Sophoclean dramas, a heroic figure who is compounded of the same literary elements faced a situation which is essentially the same. The demonstration of this recurrent pattern is made not through character-analysis, but through a close examination of the language employed by both the hero and those with whom he contends. The two chapters attempt to present what might, with a slight exaggeration, be called the "formula" of Sophoclean tragedy. A great artist may repeat a structural pattern but he never really repeats himself. In the remaining four chapters, a close analysis of three plays, the Antigone, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus, emphasizes the individuality and variety of the living figures Sophocles created on the same basic armature. This approach to Sophoclean drama is (as in the author's previous work on the subject) both historical and critical; the universal and therefore contemporary appeal of the plays is to be found not by slighting or dismissing their historical context, but by an attempt to understand it all in its complexity. "The play needs to be seen as what it was, to be understood as what it is."
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“No one carries his learning more gracefully than Knox. That is because he does not, like so many scholars, seal it off from the rest of life. Ancient and current wisdom communicate through him.” —Garry Wills Should the ancient Greeks—"the oldest dead white European males"—be kept alive in our collective memory? Why study them at all if, by passing their destructive ideas to the Romans and eventually to the rest of Europe, they may ultimately be responsible for much of what’s wrong with American society? In this “supremely lucid and elegant” book (The New Yorker), Bernard Knox poses and answers such fundamental questions, helping us to remember the astonishing originality of the ancient Greeks and all that we have learned—and continue to learn—from them.
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This text examines Sophocles' Oedipus' Tyrannus in the context of 5th-century Athens. In attempting to discover what the play meant to Sophocles' contemporaries, the book casts fresh light on its timeless and universal nature. This edition has a new preface and suggested reading list.
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Linked by the events of Bernard Knox's remarkable life, the twenty-five chapters of "Essays Ancient and Modern" cover subjects ranging from Hesiod, Homer, and Thucydides to Auden, Forster, and the Spanish Civil War. With a masterful eye for the telling detail, Knox continually reminds us that we share the present with antiquity's living past. A soldier in Italy finds a battered book in the rubble of a bombed-out firehouse-- and opens it to read Virgil's denunciation of war. An illiterate Greek bard composes a garbled Homeric song to celebrate the recent heroism of local partisans. A traveler heading north from modern Athens must choose between the Sacred Way-- or the NATO Road. Whether the subject is the role of women in ancient Athens or the novelists of modern Italy, the wit and erudition of Bernard Knox never fail to instruct and delight. Now in paperback, "Essays Ancient and Modern" takes it place alongside the distinguished essays of Knox's "Word and Action", a book whose title brings together, in the words of Anthony Hecht, "the double strand of his admirable career".
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(In this widely praised book, an eminent classicist examin...)
In this widely praised book, an eminent classicist examines Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus in the context of fifth-century B.C. Athens. In attempting to discover what the play meant to Sophocles' contemporaries-and in particular in disentangling Sophocles' ideas from Freud's psychoanalytical interpretations-Bernard Knox casts fresh light on its timeless and universal nature. For this edition, Knox has provided a new preface and a list of suggested readings. "What a joy it is to welcome this book back in print. As perennial as Sophocles' great play itself, Knox's work has never gone out of date, and never will."-Robert Fagles Reviews of the earlier editions: "A superb analysis, demonstrating that when classical study is aware of Freud and the techniques of modern literary criticism, it can be as exciting nowadays as it must have been during the Renaissance."-New Yorker "A superb critical and textual investigation."-New York Times "One of the major contributions to Sophoclean and to Greek studies in recent years."-Virginia Quarterly Review "A magnificent contribution ... which is really required reading."-Cedric Whitman, American Journal of Philology "A brilliant piece of work combining the best of classical scholarship with the best of modern literary criticism."-John E. Rexine, Hellenic World
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"Backing into the Future" encompasses the many lives of Bernard Knox - historian, literary critic and defender of the humanities - a man who has brought the classical world to life for the uninitiated reader and scholar alike. Opening with a group of essays on heroes and poets (exploring such topics as the character of Achilles and Ovid in exile), the book moves on to "Men, Gods and Cities" (essays ranging in subject from the Delphic Oracle to the trial of Socrates). Knox closes his collection with diverse reflections on the survival and transformation of the classics in the present age.
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Knox, Bernard MacGregor Walker was born on November 24, 1914 in Bradford, England. Son of Bernard and Rowena (Walker) Knox. came to the United States, 1939, naturalized, 1943.
Bachelor, St. John's College, University Cambridge, England, 1936. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1948. Doctor of Humane Letters, Yale University, 1983.
Master of Arts (honorary), Harvard University, 1962. Doctor of Letters, Princeton University, 1964. Doctor of Humane Letters, George Washington University, 1977.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Georgetown University, 1988. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Michigan, 1985.
Member of faculty, Yale University, 1947-1961; professor classics, Yale University, 1959-1961; director, Center Hellenic Studies, Washington, 1961-1985; Sather lecturer, University of California at Berkeley, 1963; Martin lecturer, Oberlin College, 1981; West lecturer, Stanford University, 1984; Nellie Wallace lecturer, University of Oxford, 1975.
("Backing into the Future" encompasses the many lives of B...)
(Linked by the events of Bernard Knox's remarkable life, t...)
(Linked by the events of Bernard Knox's remarkable life, t...)
(In this widely praised book, an eminent classicist examin...)
( The first two chapters of this book isolate and describ...)
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( “No one carries his learning more gracefully than Knox....)
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Served to captain Army of the United States, 1942-1945, European Theatre of Operations. Member American Philosophical Association (president 1980, Medal Distinguished Service 1996), American Academy Arts and Sciences, Philosophical Society of America (Jefferson medal 2004), British Academy (correspondent) Clubs: Cosmos (award 1979) (Washington).
Married Betty Baur, April 12, 1939. 1 child, Bernard MacGregor Baur.