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Title: Trojan Horses: Saving the Classics from Conservatives by Page Dubois ISBN: 0814719465 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4

Rating: 2
Summary: Dude, where's my text?
Comment: Beautiful-looking book. Nice broad margins, nice clear font. Nice narrow lines, and not too many of them. Not too many pages, either...

Wait a minute. I estimate 250-300 words per page x 140 pages. That's something like 40,000 words, tops. Put 12 words on a line and 36 lines on a page (neither of which would be at all unusual) and this book would stretch to all of 90 pages!

I know how important it is for academics to publish, but in this case I really think Page Dubois should have held back - maybe until she'd written a whole book.

Rating: 5
Summary: warrior goddess
Comment: Page duBois is the warrior goddess of classical scholars. In Trojan Horses, she does battle with conservative commentators who distort and delimit the ancient world in the name of "traditional values" and morality. As against the conservative version of classical culture, duBois reconstructs the sexual, religious, and ethical complexity of the ancient world. All of this she does in elegant, wonderfully inviting prose.
Let duBois guide you through the ancient world. It's a brilliant, beautiful trip.

Rating: 5
Summary: a classic!
Comment: I read this book in two spell-bound sittings. A thoroughly enjoyable and exciting book, I recommend it to anyone interested in contemporary culture. You don't have to be a classist to get something out of it. Page Dubois, in a wonderfully generous voice, explains why we should care about the endless rants of neocons who misread the classics to serve their own limited worldview. And yet this is a book that does more than merely "respond" to a bunch of tired conservative ideologues, some now dead, or simply chime in on debates on multiculturalism that have come to seem dated. In Trojan Horses, Page Dubois shows us how the ancient world was too complex and dynamic to be reduced to cliche. This is a book full of passion and love for history, literature, and culture written by a scholar at the top of her game.

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