History records that the roots of our Western Civilization were planted in Greece, nurtured in Rome, and revivified in Europe during the Renaissance. It is the task and privilege of each generation to relate and interpret this priceless heritage of classical literature, history, and art to its own culture. For the postwar generation in the United States no one has made a more important contribution to this humanistic tradition than Bernard Knox. As a research scholar, he has enriched it; as a gifted writer, superb lecturer, and even occasional actor, he has vitalized and disseminated it; as a skilled administrator he has efficiently marshalled its resources for the benefit of the world, through the Center for Hellenic Studies; and as a man, in war and peace, he has exemplified it. The product of the best of two academic traditions, the British and the American, he has, by his own versatility, become a uniquely effective spokesman for the finest features of our classical cultural heritage.
