Of Farming and Classics: A Memoir - Hardcover
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"An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it has evolved over the past century and a half." - Edith Hall, Times Literary Supplement "David Grene reminds us of two crucial aspects of modern life exemplified by this rare individual. First is the symbiosis between the life of contemplation and action - and just how it is that hard physical and dirty work offers real value in rediscovering nature, bringing with it a certain pragmatism that permeates reading and thinking.... Second, Grene reminds us of what constitutes success in life." - Victor Davis Hanson, New York Sun "Grene was as much part of the rural farming community in Ireland as of the academic community in Chicago, and Irish people found it as hard to imagine him as a professor of Greek as his academic colleagues found it hard to imagine him as a dairy farmer." - Irish Times "David Grene could easily be described with the cliche 'last of a breed,' but he was also the first of his kind. Or at least, the first in a long time.... His personal style reincarnated that of the Roman artistocrats, with their love of the soil and taste for good books." - Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune"
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A fiercely independent thinker, colorful storyteller, and spirited teacher, David Grene devoted his life to two things: farming, which he began as a boy in Ireland and continued into old age; and classics, which he taught for several decades that culminated in his translating and editing, with Richmond Lattimore, the "Complete Greek Tragedies".In this charming memoir, which he wrote before his death in 2002 at the age of eighty-nine, Grene weaves together these interests to tell a quirky and absorbing story of the sometimes turbulent and always interesting life he split between the University of Chicago - where he helped found the Committee on Social Thought - and the farm he kept back in Ireland.Grene's form and humor are quite his own, and his brilliant story-telling will enthrall anyone interested in the classics, rural Ireland, or twentieth-century intellectual history, especially as it pertains to the University of Chicago.
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- VerlagUniversity of Chicago Press
- Erscheinungsdatum2006
- ISBN 10 0226308014
- ISBN 13 9780226308012
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- Anzahl der Seiten184
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OF FARMING & CLASSICS: A Memoir.
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UNIV OF CHICAGO PR.
(2007)
ISBN 10: 0226308014
ISBN 13: 9780226308012
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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Gut. XII., 169 Seiten / p., Beilage / suppl. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Beilage / Supplement: Rezension TLS May 18 2007 / review - A fiercely independent thinker, colorful storyteller, and spirited teacher, David Grene (1913-2002) devoted his life to two things: farming, which he began as a boy in Ireland and continued into old age; and classics, which he taught for several decades that culminated in his translating and editing, with Richmond Lattimore, of The Complete Greek Tragedies. In this charming memoir, which he wrote during the years leading up to his death in 2002 at the age of eighty-nine, Grene weaves together these interests to tell a quirky and absorbing story of the sometimes turbulent and always interesting life he split between the University of Chicago where he helped found the Committee on Social Thoughtand the farm he kept back in Ireland. -- Charting the path that took him from Europe to Chicago in 1937, and encompassing his sixty-five-year career at the university, Grene's book draws readers into the heady and invigorating climate of his time there. And it is elegantly balanced with reflections stemming from his work on the farm where he hunted, plowed, and regularly traveled on horseback to bring his cows home for milking. Grene's form and humor are quite his own, and his brilliant storytelling will enthrall anyone interested in the classics, rural Ireland, or twentieth-century intellectual history, especially as it played out at the University of Chicago. ISBN 9780226308012 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 293 13,3 x 2,3 x 20,3 cm, Original Leinen kaschiert mit Schutzumschlag / Cloth laminated with dust jacket. Artikel-Nr. 1172233
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