CLIMBING PARNASSUS

What They're Saying...

"Trenchant observations, serrated by Simmons' informal inflection, make accessible a subject that may otherwise seem elitist…. Climbing Parnassus may exude an intoxicating appeal to a more vast audience, disarmed by style and spurred by relevance."
— ForeWord

"Simmons is passionate on the need to cultivate ourselves through a study of the classics, and he has made an engaging and comprehensive case in this fine book."
— National Review

"A book that makes one feel more intelligent for having read it."
— Booklist

"Comprehensive and eloquent without exaggeration."
— Jacques Barzun, author of From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present

"Tracy Simmons has written an earnest, poignant, but ultimately hopeful book, regretting what we have lost by abandoning classical education, but also describing what we might gain, for ourselves and for our children, by taking up that arduous, bracing path."
— Richard Brookhiser, author, The Adamses: America's First Dynasty, 1735-1918.

"Tracy Simmons, a journalist and humanist, makes a compelling case for the relevance of the study of classics in interesting and untraditional arguments often unknown even by classicists. We who teach Latin and Greek, more so now than ever, need to be reminded by unforseen allies and important books like this why the classical worlds must not be forgotten—and why in so many unexpected ways they are relevant to thousands outside the university."
— Victor Davis Hanson, author, The Other Greeks, and co-author, Who Killed Homer?

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