Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations
Profile Books (Allen & Unwin), $49.99 hb, 320 pp, 9781781250488
Classics
Restoring the classics
by Christopher Allen •
When Confucius was asked by his disciples how they should become wise, he would enjoin them to study the classics; over two millennia later and much closer to home, Winckelmann declared that it was only by imitating the supreme masterpieces of the Greeks that we too might one day become inimitable – putting his finger on the paradox that the greatest originality always has deep roots in the past.
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