The European Parliament in Strasbourg is graced by a modern sculpture of the heroine Europa transported over the seas to Crete on the back of an amorous bull, Zeus in disguise. This panhellenic myth appears in the earliest European literature, Homer’s The Iliad, and thereafter is frequently represented in poetry and art. It is appropriate that The Birth of Classical Europe op (...)
May 20, 2011
Books
Pagan & Christian
The Birth of Classical EuropeA History from Troy to AugustineSimon Price and Peter ThonemannViking, $35, 416 pp.
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