Art and Text in Ancient Greek Culture (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism)

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Summary: a reader from San Cristobal is also wrong
Review: I can't comment on the book. However I must point out to anyone who has read the two other vicious reviews/character assasinations that Simon Goldhill is a profoundly good man.

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Summary: I don't agree with A. Seddon's review.
Review: I don't agree with the review that has been posted on this site. In a paranoid and weird way, it seems to accuse the author of being a member of the far right. I think that is cruel and unjustified. However, it is fair to say that Simon Goldhill - as the academic consensus internationally indicates - is simply (a) a profoundly unpleasant man, and (b) a pretty useless scholar.

So, criticise him within this framework - as a failed academic and a failed human being. But don't make accusations about his political outlook which cannot be derived from his scholarship. Unless Mr Seddon knows something we don't?

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Summary: You must read this review before you proceed.
Review: The fact that you are even reading this review indicates that you are considering buying it. Please, I beg you, listen to me - I have something vitally important to say.

This 'book' sullies the good name of Greek scholarship. That the other academics involved allowed themselves to appear in a book with Simon Goldhill should cause us to scorn and dimiss them - from their jobs, should they repeat this offence.

His filthy chapter is offensive, unpleasant, depraved, and yet somehow also excruciatingly boring - almost coma-inducingly so. Every word drips with the bearded contempt he has for women, for Greeks, for life itself.

This book does not only sully the name of Greek scholarship - it sullies the good name of drivel. It plumbs new depths for the human species. I beg you not to buy it, ever.

For the Greeks, for those who have gone, and for yourselves: just say, "Goldhill: never!" We must fight him in our lecture halls, we must fight him in our libraries, and we must never surrender.

If we resist him now, if we defeat this menace, then even if Greek scholarship lasts for a thousand years, people will still say: this was our finest hour.