The Future of the ClassicalISBN: 978-0-7456-3599-6
Paperback
104 pages
August 2006, Polity
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James Porter, Journal of Roman Studies
"A thought-provoking and very readable book, especially in light
of the recent debate regarding the future of the Ancient History
A-Level."
Anastasia Bakogianni, Journal of Classics
Teaching
"This is a terrific book – the fundamental statement we
have long been hoping for, that confronts the European Classical
heritage with the full complexity of its resonance in the age of
globalization and postmodernity. It is brief, punchy and bright
– very learned, but wearing its learning lightly, engaged,
committed, always enthusiastic. Settis writes as a great authority
immersed in the living Classical tradition, yet very sensitive to
its swathe of receptions (art historical, architectural, poetic and
historiographic, as well as literary). He leads us through a
dazzling and hugely stimulating confrontation with the deep pasts
and the futures of the Western tradition."
John Elsner, University of Oxford
"Salvatore Settis seeks a contemporary answer to Arnaldo
Momigliano’s question: why study ancient history? In this
dynamic and urgent series of chapters, Settis considers the
classical in a global setting. European culture is seen to be
demarcated by its rhythmic returns to classical civilization as an
“elsewhere” of both time and space. Settis places
classicism under scrutiny as a cultural project, rather than
revering it as an icon, and argues that, through the classical,
myth is absorbed into history. The deep tradition of cycles of
death and rebirth unique to European history offers rich
opportunities for viewing the past as alien, and therefore capable
of providing a wider understanding of “otherness.” This
provocative text takes nothing for granted."
Elizabeth Cropper, National Gallery of Art