TY  - BOOK
AU  - Knox,Bernard
TI  - The oldest dead white European males and other reflections on the classics
SN  - 9780393312331
AV  - PA 3071 .K58 1994
PY  - 1994///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - Greek literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Theory, etc
KW  - Civilization, Western
KW  - Greek influences
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - Greece
KW  - Civilization
N1  - First published 1993; Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-136) index; 1. The Oldest Dead White European Males -- 2. The Walls of Thebes -- 3. The Continuity of Greek Culture
N2  - Gender of violence --
 "Beyond the limits of decency": women in slavery --
 Making "better girls": mistresses, slave women, and the claims of domesticity --
 "Nothing but deception in them": the war within --
 Out of the house of bondage: a sundering of ties, 1865-1866 --
 "Makeshift kind of life": free women and free homes --
 "Wild notions of right and wrong": from the plantation household to the wider world
ER  -