Books by Miriam Leonard

Taking on the question of how the glories of the classical world could be reconciled with the Bible, this book explains how Judaism played a vital role in defining modern philhellenism. It illustrates how the encounter between Athens and Jerusalem became a lightning rod for intellectual concerns.

Under the microscope of recent scholarship the universality of Greek tragedy has started to fade, as particularities of Athenian culture have come into focus. Miriam Leonard contests the idea of the death of tragedy and argues powerfully for the continued vitality and viability of Greek tragic theater in the central debates of contemporary culture.

An introduction to the thinkers who laid the basis of all Western philosophy.