Love, Sex and Tragedy: Why Classics Matters - Couverture souple

Confident, intelligent and assertive... he draws many telling lessons (Oliver Taplin, Guardian Weekly)

Passionate, witty and broad-ranging ... Goldhill skilfully overturns and amends our existing beliefs and is superb when discussing the origins of democracy, the importance of tragedy and, inevitably, sex (Observer)

Simon Goldhill reminds us in Love, Sex & Tragedy of how Greek representations of the body beautiful, architecture and ideas of philosophy and democracy still influence us today. (New Scientist)

Goldhill does for declensions what Alain de Botton did for Descartes (Tatler)

Terrifically good ... As this brilliant book demonstrates, a familiarity with the ancient world is about much more than a life in ruins (Independent)

Love, Sex and Tragedy has the popular intellectual grace of de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, but it is more than clever and everywhere avoids being tongue-in-cheek. ... I wish more classicists would write as invitingly and honestly as Goldhill does ... The world would be a better place. (Times Higher Education Supplement)

Goldhill is the kind of classics master whose lessons you wouldn't want to skip (Independent on Sunday)

It's great, and great fun ... the kind of book you find yourself reading out to your other half as you go along ... A sparkling, erudite and amusing remedy for our collective historical amnesia (ZADIE SMITH)

[A] wonderful biography (Spectator)

This book is thoroughly enjoyable and refreshing (History Today)