What Is a Jewish Classicist?

In these self-reflective essays Simon Goldhill tackles big issues of our era: race and religion, exclusion and belonging, privilege and minoritization. He interrogates the past and present of classics and poses some serious questions to its future. – Katherine Harloe, Professor of Classics and Intellectual History, and Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, UK[This book] repays reading because of its illumination of Jewish responses to prejudice and challenge. * Classics for All *

Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge, UK, and Foreign Secretary of the British Academy. Among his numerous publications are Reading Greek Tragedy (2008), The End of Dialogue in Antiquity (2009), Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives (2015) and How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today (2020).