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Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter

by Cahill, Thomas

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  • Format: Hard Cover
  • Book condition: Very Good/Very Good
  • Edition: 1st Edition
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • ISBN 10: 0385495536
  • ISBN 13: 9780385495530
  • Publisher: Doubleday
  • Place: New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date published: 2003
  • Pages: 304
  • Size: 6 x 8.5 x 1.25 inches
  • Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Subjects: HISTORY / World;

Book Description

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday. Very Good/Very Good. 2003. Hard Cover. 0385495536 A little light creasing on jacket edge. .


Book summary

In this accessible and often entertaining survey, historian Thomas Cahill reviews the achievements of Classical Greece and its huge influence on Western civilization. Beginning with an overview of Greek history--partly as Homer presented it in the ILIAD and the ODYSSEY--he goes on to focus on the other early figures who have most influenced Greek civilization (including Sophocles, Sappho, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle) and to explore their contributions to modern attitudes toward, for example, war, philosophy, literature, government, and religion. He also writes about the interrelationships between Greek and Roman ways of thinking, and the influence of Christianity on the Greeks, and vice versa.

Media Reviews


"Like having a worldly, well-versed, and imaginative uncle tell you a good story...."

   -- Kirkus

"[Cahill] is a talented writer, and his tour of Greek culture is a triumph of popularization: extraordinarily knowledgeable, informal in tone, amusing, wide-ranging, smartly paced. We learn much from him about Greek achievements, from Homer's epic vision to the importance of free speech, from the development of the disciplined war machine the Greeks called the phalanx to Plato's love of reason. Cahill has produced an updated version of Edith Hamilton's beloved GREEK WAY of 75 years ago...."

   -- Joy Connolly, New York Times Book Review

Publisher Notes


In the fourth volume of the acclaimed Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill brings his characteristic wit and style to a fascinating tour of ancient Greece.
The Greeks invented everything from Western warfare to mystical prayer, from logic to statecraft. Many of their achievements, particularly in art and philosophy, are widely celebrated; other important innovations and accomplishments, however, are unknown or underappreciated. In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Thomas Cahill explores the legacy, good and bad, of the ancient Greeks. From the origins of Greek culture in the migrations of armed Indo-European tribes into Attica and the Peloponnesian peninsula, to the formation of the city-states, to the birth of Western literature, poetry, drama, philosophy, art, and architecture, Cahill makes the distant past relevant to the present.




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