Is there such a thing as a classic? Is there a solid foundation for the classic in the history of taste? Is history instead revealed to consist of repeated episodes of soaring and falling reputations, rediscoveries, and radical shifts in the canon, all of which went so completely against common knowledge? Where does the idea of the timeless classic come from? And how has it become so fiercely contested?
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How does knowledge travel? It can be difficult in our Internet-driven era to envision how knowledge was shared in the ancient world. Historian Violet Moller’s “The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found” re-creates the pathways by which scientific and philosophical texts were passed down from the classical world to the modern era.