I classici nell'eta dell'indiscrezione
by Maurizio Bettini
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Maurizio Bettini argues that oral culture, because it does not have an inexhaustible memory at its disposal, tends to preserve its cultural inheritance. But written culture forgets nothing: but when everything can be recalled or somehow retrieved, the problem becomes what to remember and what to consign to oblivion. This provocative book, written with a light touch, rooted in the Classics but ranging over the whole of Western literary culture, addresses many of the major issues that face us show more at the turn of the millennium. What is our shared cultural currency? What use - good or bad - do we make of it? Why should anyone involve themselves with the Classics? Features and themes of our time - the relentless anniversary, the magpie nature of the anthology, the urge for instant gratification, the attraction of the cultural canon, the way writing can imprison - are brought together in a passionate plea for the Classics as essentially impervious to these vulgar urges of our age - the Age of Indiscretion. show lessTags
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Maurizio Bettini is professor of classical philology at the Universit degli Studi di Siena, Facolt di Lettere, Dipartimento di Studi Classici, as well as director of the center "Antro-pologia del Mondo Antico." He is also a regular visiting professor in the Department of Classics, the University of California, Berkeley. William Michael Short is show more assistant professor of classics at the University of Texas at San Antonio. show less
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
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- 880.9 — Literature & rhetoric Classical & modern Greek literatures Classical Greek literature and literatures of related Hellenic languages History and criticism of Greek literature
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- PA3001 .B4813 — Language and Literature Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature Classical literature
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