Books by Simon (University of Cambridge) Goldhill

With trademark versatility and brilliance, world-renowned classicist Simon Goldhill explores how Christianity transformed humanity's relationship with time in late antiquity. New ways of conceptualizing and experiencing time were developed, and even today we live in the shadow of this revolution.

Simon Goldhill offers a fresh and exciting perspective on how the Victorians used material culture to express the past, particularly the biblical past and the past of classical antiquity. Goldhill uncovers how the nineteenth century's sense of history was reinvented through things.

This is a study of how sex and sexuality are written about in the first centuries of this era.

Does Greek matter? To whom and why? This lively, illustrated, interdisciplinary study focuses on moments when passionate conflicts about Greek and Greek-ness have erupted in the modern and ancient worlds, ranging from ancient Greece through the Renaissance to modernist opera. It takes reception studies in an exciting alternative direction.