Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea : Why the Greeks Matter

by Cahill, Thomas

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New York: Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday, 2003 Fine condition in bright, shiny Fine Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. Pages are fresh and crisp, apparently never read. With double-page map and 32 pages of illustrations on glossy paper. Endpapers illustrated in full-color. Pronouncing Glossary. Notes and Sources. Chronology. Index. "First Edition" is so stated, with complete number row (13579 10 8642) on the copyright page. From the Dust Jacket: "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... SAILING THE WINE-DARK SEA is a remarkable intellectual adventure -- conducted by the most companionable guide imaginable. Cahill's knowledge of his sources is so intimate that he has made his own fresh translations of the Greek lyric poets for this volume." First Printing of the First Edition . Hardcover. Publisher's blue boards/DJ Not Price Clipped (27.50). 8vo. xiv, 305pp. .

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.

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