pickInteresting. Not so much about the Greeks and the Romans as about how the Greeks and Romans are the same as and different from us and the similarities and differences between the ways people have regarded them in different generations. A lot to get through in just 120 pages.
so-so"So much of Western culture turns on centuries of exploration of the legacy of the classical works that it lies somewhere at the roots of pretty well all we say,see, or think."
I cannot say I was overly enthusiastic with this book, it seemed as it was a slow trudge to set up a frame of reference for someone who had no knowledge of the Greek and Roman classical impact on modern cultures.
To be interested in the classical word has often mane literally to go there, to embark on a voyage into the unknown.
Classics: A Very Short Introduction | 
