The Greek Way
10 best books like The Greek Way (Edith Hamilton): Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens, The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter, The Greeks, The Life of Greece, Pagans and Christians, The Portable Greek Reader, The Gods of the Greeks, The Greek Achievement: The Foundation of the Western World, Poets in a Landscape
Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
| Author | James Davidson |
| ISBN | 0060977663 |
The luxury of the ancient world is legendary, but the Athenian reputation is sober because this wealthy, successful city-state spent all its money on the conspicuous consumption of ephemeral things. Their consuming passions for food, wine and sex drove their society, as well as generating the rich...
The dramatic events of the Trojan War are legend—but Homer’s epic poem, Iliad, is devoted entirely to a few mundane weeks at the end of a debilitating, waning ten-year campaign. The story’s focus is not on drama but on a bitter truth: both armies want nothing more than to stop fighting and go home....
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter
| Author | Thomas Cahill |
| ISBN | 0385495544 |
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...
| Author | H.D.F. Kitto |
| ISBN | 0140135219 |
The Greeks, Humphrey Davy Findley Kitto
The Greeks is a 1951 non-fiction book on classical Greece by University of Bristol professor and translator H. D. F. Kitto. The Greeks serves as an introduction to the whole range of life in ancient Greece and established Kitto as one of the foremost Grecian...
| Author | Will Durant |
| ISBN | 1567310133 |
The Story of Civilization, Volume II: A history of Greek civilization from the beginnings, and of civilization in the Near East from the Death of Alexander to the Roman Conquest. The Life of Greece is a survey of ancient Greece whose scope and style recalls the golden age of historical writing, before...
| Author | Robin Lane Fox |
| ISBN | 0670808482 |
Fox recreates the period from the 2nd to the 4th century, when the Olympians lost their dominion and Christianity, with Constantine's conversion, triumphed in the Mediterranean world.
CONTENTS
List of Maps
Preface
Pagans & Christians
Pagans & their cities
Pagan...
| Author | W.H. Auden |
| ISBN | 0140150390 |
It is commonplace to say that our civilization is built on the ruins of Greece. W. H. Auden’s splendid anthology locates the truth behind the truism, while filling in the gaps in our knowledge of a people who gave us so much of our cultural legacy. Every page in The Portable Greek Reader contains some...
| Author | Karl Kerényi |
| ISBN | 0500270481 |
After a brief introduction, the complex genealogies of the gods lead him from the begettings of the Titans and from Aphrodite under all her titles and aspects, to Apollo, Hermes and the reign of Zeus, touching upon the Affairs of Pan, nymphs, satyrs, cosmogonies and the birth of mankind, until he reaches...
The Greek Achievement: The Foundation of the Western World
Charles Freeman's The Greek Achievement traces the entire course of ancient Greek history across thousands of years--from the Mycenaean and Minoan civilizations of the Bronze Age through the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. This brilliant account celebrates the incredible...
| Author | Gilbert Highet |
| ISBN | 1853753017 |
Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired both for his scholarship and his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of Latin literature and the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, “I have endeavored to recall some...
| Author | Werner Wilhelm Jaeger |
| ISBN | 0195004256 |
Werner Jaeger's classic three-volume work, originally published in 1939, is now available in paperback. Paideia, the shaping of Greek character through a union of civilization, tradition, literature, and philosophy is the basis for Jaeger's evaluation of Hellenic culture.
Volume I describes...
| Author | Moses I. Finley |
| ISBN | 1590170172 |
The World of Odysseus is a concise and penetrating account of the society that gave birth to the Iliad and the Odyssey--a book that provides a vivid picture of the Greek Dark Ages, its men and women, works and days, morals and values. Long celebrated as a pathbreaking achievement in the social history...
Revised to include new selections and updated bibliographical material, the second edition of this popular sourcebook offers a rich, revealing look at everyday Roman life. It provides clear, lively translations of a fascinating array of documents drawn from Latin and Greek source material--from...
Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom
| Author | Victor Davis Hanson |
| ISBN | 1893554260 |
For hundreds of years, the study of the classics was at the heart of a liberal education, thought essential to the cultivation of free men. Yet today speaking Latin would be regarded as a sign of eccentricity, not erudition. People now attend university for technical expertise in fields like business,...
| Author | Jean-Pierre Vernant |
| ISBN | 0801492939 |
Jean-Pierre Vernant's concise, brilliant essay on the origins of Greek thought relates the cultural achievement of the ancient Greeks to their physical and social environment and shows that what they believed in was inseparable from the way they lived. The emergence of rational thought, Vernant...
Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives
| Author | Simon Goldhill |
| ISBN | 0226301192 |
In Love, Sex & Tragedy Simon Goldhill lifts the veil on our inheritance of classical traditions and offers a witty, engrossing survey of the Greek and Roman roots of everything from our overwhelming mania for "hard bodies" to our political systems. Encompassing Karl Marx, Clark Gable, George...
| Author | John Boardman |
| ISBN | 0192801376 |
From the epic poems of Homer through the glittering art and architecture of Greece's Golden Age to the influential Roman systems of law and leadership, the classical world established the foundations of our culture as well as many of its most enduring achievements. Now available in a smaller, more...
Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City
| Author | Gwendolyn Leick |
| ISBN | 0140265740 |
Over 7,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, urban living began...
Mesopotamia, situated roughly where Iraq is today, was one of the greatest ancient civilizations. It was here that the very first cities were created, and where the familiar sights of modern urban life - public buildings and gardens,...
| Author | I.F. Stone |
| ISBN | 0385260326 |
My first exposure to I.F. Stone was in high school when I stumbled upon his Hidden History of the Korean War in the library. The contents were quite upsetting as they contradicted most of what I'd thought I'd known about the event. My second exposure to Stone was at Grinnell College when I saw a documentary...
| Author | Kenneth James Dover |
| ISBN | 0674362705 |
The ancient Greeks have for centuries been regarded as Western Culture's cultural and intellectual ancestors. But throughout generations of education in ancient Greek philosophy, drama, poetry, politics, and art, a crucial aspect of the ancient Greek world has come to be overlooked, avoided,...
| Author | Michael Grant |
| ISBN | 1842122657 |
The greatest name in popular classical scholarship sheds light on one of history's most creative eras and civilizations: the ancient Greeks between 1000 and 494 B.C. During this time, among other landmarks the introduction of the Phoenician alphabet enabled the recording of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey....
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume II
| Author | Edward Gibbon |
| ISBN | 0140433945 |
Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one of the world's greatest civilizations over thirteen centuries - its rulers, wars and society, and...
