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Greek Ways - How the Greeks Created Western Civilization (Paperback, Revised)
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Greek Ways - How the Greeks Created Western Civilization (Paperback, Revised)
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Loot Price R355
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In the classics departments of today's universities, Bruce Thornton
says, the Greeks are accused of stealing their achievements from
black Egyptians, of oppressing their wives and daughters, and of
hypocritically speculating about freedom while holding slaves. Most
of all, classic Greek culture has come under attack precisely
because its glorious achievement, extended into history, is what
defines the West and makes it distinct. In Greek Ways, Thornton
clears away these misconceptions. Writing with wit and erudition,
he discusses in fascinating detail those areas of Greek life -
sexuality and sexual roles; slavery and war; philosophy and
politics - that some modern critics have made into "contested
sites." Perhaps more importantly, he also reclaims the importance
of those core ideas the Greeks invented, ideas about human fate and
purpose that have shaped the modern world. Nearly seventy years
ago, Edith Hamilton published The Greek Way, a book that educated
two generations of readers about the debt we owe the handful of
city-states that developed "the spirit of the West" some 2500 years
ago. Bruce Thornton's Greek Ways is for our time what Hamilton's
book was for a prior era: a classic inquiry holding up a mirror to
Greek culture in which we can see ourselves.
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