Bruce Thornton

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Bruce S. Thornton is a classicist at California State University, Fresno.Thornton is a frequent guest on talk radio shows across the United States and appears regularly on ABC’s “Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher.” He is a regular contributor to the popular conservative Web site www.CaliforniaRepublic.org. He is a notable author and has written several books including Eros: They myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality and The Greek Georgic Tradition and the Founders.

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Searching for Joaquin: Myth and History in California (forthcoming from Encounter Books, Fall 2002)
Bonfire of the Humanities. Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age, with John Heath and Victor Davis Hanson (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2001)
Greek Ways. How the Greeks Created Western Civilization (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2000)
Humanities Handbook (Prentice-Hall, 2000)
Plagues of the Mind: The New Epidemic of False Knowledge(Wilmington, DE: ISI Press, 1999).
Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality (Boulder, Co.: Westview, 1997) Paperback edition an alternate selection of the Reader's Subscription, April 1998.