The illustration depicts the Pensive Athena.
MYRON STAGMAN
CITY-STATE PRESS
Chicago / Frankfurt
I
am an author of books primarily on Classical Greece and on Shakespeare,
not to slight a book very close to my heart entitled Rescue Nature,
Rescue Ourselves.
I
am a research scholar and doctor of English Literature from San Francisco,
California, a specialist in Shakespeare and the Greek Classics.
Almost
all of my works share the goal of bringing to a fairly wide audience information
which is normally confined to universities. I try to faithfully pass on
a magnificent literary heritage in a style that is essential, forthright,
and now-and-then unavoidably controversial. And to provide a pleasurable
reading experience.
Certain
themes or messages appear again and again in my writings:
- Ancient Athens’ participatory democracy, and how it differed from our own representative democracies.
- Moral character and ethical values in opposition to materialistic values which worship "the twin cronies", Money and Power.
- The importance of individuals in shaping history and human idealism – Pericles and Socrates, Shakespeare and Marlowe, for example. And the significance of each of us, our potential, to make an impact in a world which makes us seem much smaller than we actually are.
- Humor – Another goal of my writing is to capture the spirit of comic dramatists, and add some comments of my own fancy.