@article{1480380,
      recid = {1480380},
      author = {DuBois, Page, },
      title = {Trojan Horses : Saving the Classics from Conservatives /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {We've become accustomed to the wisdom of the ancient  Greeks being trotted out by conservatives in the name of  timeless virtues. At the same time, critics have charged  that multiculturalists and their ilk have hopelessly  corrupted the study of antiquity itself, and that the  teaching of Classics is dead. Trojan Horses is Page  duBois's answer to those who have appropriated material  from antiquity in the service of a conservative political  agendaamong them, Camille Paglia, Allan Bloom, and William  Bennett. She challenges cultural conservatives' appeal to  the authority of the classics by arguing that their  presentation of ancient Greece is simplistic, ahistorical,  and irreparably distorted by their politics. As well as  constructing a devastating critique of these pundits,  Trojan Horses seeks to present a more complex and more  accurate view of ancient Greek politics, sex, and religion,  with a Classics primer. She eloquently recounts the tales  of Daedalus and Artemis, for example, conveying their  complexity and passion, while also unearthing actions and  beliefs that do not square so easily with today's "family  values." As duBois writes, "Like Bennett, I think we should  study the past, but not to find nuggets of eternal wisdom.  Rather we can comprehend in our history a fuller range of  human possibilities, of beginnings, of error, and of  difference." In these fleet chapters, duBois offers readers  a view of the ancient Greeks that is more nuanced, more  subtle, more layered and in every way more historical than  the portrait other writers, of whatever stripe, want to  popularize and see displayed in our classrooms. Sharp,  timely, and engaging, Trojan Horses portrays the richness  of ancient Greek culture while riding in to rescue the  Greeks from the new barbarians.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1480380},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479818143.001.0001},
}