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Het verbod vlees te eten en andere gelijkaardige bepalingen die van mensen uitgaan
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ISBN: 9061005930 9789061005933 Year: 2006 Volume: 7 Publisher: Rotterdam Ad. Donker

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De Turkenkrijg
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ISBN: 9061005809 9789061005803 Year: 2005 Publisher: Rotterdam Donker

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Leerdicht over de natuur : Lucretius
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ISBN: 9789055737802 Year: 2007 Publisher: Budel Damon

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Lof der zotheid
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ISBN: 9027403694 9789027403698 Year: 1979 Publisher: Wijnegem Het Spectrum

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Utopia
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ISBN: 9025380719 9025380700 9789025380717 Year: 1973 Publisher: Amsterdam Athenaeum-Polak en Van Gennep

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De goden
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ISSN: 07788088 ISBN: 9025306918 902530690X Year: 1993 Publisher: Amsterdam Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep

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Oedipus, naar Seneca
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ISBN: 9023403487 9789023403487 Year: 1971 Volume: 348 Publisher: Amsterdam : De Bezige Bij,


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Oude keizers, nieuwe kleren : Griekse en Latijnse vertalersvondsten
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ISBN: 9021420341 9025320341 9789021420349 Year: 1997 Publisher: Amsterdam : Polak en Van Gennep,

Trojan horses
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ISBN: 1479818143 058547978X 9780585479781 9781479818143 0814719465 9780814719466 Year: 2001 Publisher: New York New York University Press

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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.

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