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Greek Ways
- How the Greeks Created Western Civilization
Engelsk Paperback
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Greek Ways

- How the Greeks Created Western Civilization
Engelsk Paperback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
198
ISBN-13:
9781893554573
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
1893554570
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Udg. Dato:
12 dec 2002
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
229mm
Højde:
154mm
Forlag:
Encounter Books,USA
Oplagsdato:
12 dec 2002
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