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Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780385495547)
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xNATIONAL BESTSELLER - The bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on a journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago. "A triumph of popularization: extraordinarily knowledgeable, informal in tone, amusing, wide ranging, smartly paced." --The New York Times Book Review
In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek islands, honors could be won in making love and war, and lives were rife with contradictions. By developing the alphabet, the Greeks empowered the reader, demystified experience, and opened the way for civil discussion and experimentation--yet they kept slaves. The glorious verses of the Iliad recount a conflict in which rage and outrage spur men to action and suggest that their "bellicose society of gleaming metals and rattling weapons" is not so very distant from more recent campaigns of "shock and awe." And, centuries before Zorba, Greece was a land where music, dance, and freely flowing wine were essential to the high life. Granting equal time to the sacred and the profane, Cahill rivets our attention to the legacies of an ancient and enduring worldview.
Author: Thomas Cahill
ISBN-10: 0385495544
ISBN-13: 9780385495547
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 07/27/2004
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.28w x 0.74d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 10.5
Point Value: 15
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 78456 / Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 10/17/2004 pg. 26
In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek islands, honors could be won in making love and war, and lives were rife with contradictions. By developing the alphabet, the Greeks empowered the reader, demystified experience, and opened the way for civil discussion and experimentation--yet they kept slaves. The glorious verses of the Iliad recount a conflict in which rage and outrage spur men to action and suggest that their "bellicose society of gleaming metals and rattling weapons" is not so very distant from more recent campaigns of "shock and awe." And, centuries before Zorba, Greece was a land where music, dance, and freely flowing wine were essential to the high life. Granting equal time to the sacred and the profane, Cahill rivets our attention to the legacies of an ancient and enduring worldview.
Author: Thomas Cahill
ISBN-10: 0385495544
ISBN-13: 9780385495547
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 07/27/2004
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.28w x 0.74d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 10.5
Point Value: 15
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 78456 / Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 10/17/2004 pg. 26
By Thomas Cahill
xTHOMAS CAHILL's appealing approach to distant history won the attention of millions of readers in North America and beyond. Cahill is the author of six volumes in the Hinges of History series: How the Irish Saved Civilization, The Gifts of the Jews, Desire of the Everlasting Hills, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Mysteries of the Middle Ages, and Heretics and Heroes. They have been bestsellers not only in the United States but also in countries ranging from Italy to Brazil. He is also the author of A Saint on Death Row. He died in 2022.
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