Bruce Thornton is professor of classics and humanities and chairman of the Foreign Language Department at California State University at Fresno. His previous books are Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality; The Plagues of the Mind: The New Epidemic of False Knowledge and Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization. He lives in central California with his wife and two sons.
He is a regular contributor to CaliforniaRepublic.org and City Journal.
hardcover, by Bruce Thornton —
Once a colossus dominating the globe,
hardcover, by Bruce Thornton — On a hot July dawn in 1853, a gunfight took place on the western edge of the San Joaquin Valley, midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. When the smoke cleared, Joaquin Murieta, one of the most notorious bandits of the Gold Rush lay dead. Soon his severed head was traveling around the new state of California in a pickling jar. Murieta would have an unparalleled afterlife in dime novels[...]
paperback, by Bruce Thornton — In the classics departments of today's universities, Bruce Thornton says, the Greeks are accused of stealing their achievements from black Egyptians, of oppressing their wives and daughters, and of hypocritically speculating about freedom while holding slaves. Most of all, classic Greek culture has come under attack precisely because its glorious achievement, extended into history, is what[...]
