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by: Edith Hamilton
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 938
EAN: 9780393310771
ISBN: 0393310779
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 212
Publication Date: 1993-08
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Sales Rank: 103151
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece. Edith Hamilton is also the author of 'The Roman Way'.
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Rating:  - Thought-Provoking Tribute to Classical Greek Culture
"The exercise of vital powers along lines of excellence in a life affording them scope, an old Greek definition of happiness." Edith Hamilton provides a wonderfully enthusiastic look into that relatively short period, Classical Greece, when love of reason and knowledge stood side-by-side with unabashed lust for life, and intellectual pursuits were matched with physical vigor. The main focus of the book--the Classical Greeks' approach to life--makes for a thought-provoking challenge to the modern ... Read More
Rating: - Superb Overview of Greece in Classical Times
Edith Hamilton, graecophile supreme, published this summary of life and culture in fifth- and sixth-century (B.C.) Greece (most importantly, Athens) in 1930. It remains a superb introduction to classical Greek life and culture.
Hamilton's forte was not detailed scholarship; it was insight at a more general level. In this book, she delineates the differing ways in which Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides excelled at tragedy, drawing illuminating parallels with Shakespeare to make her ... Read More
Rating: - $2.59 for an affordable dabble into Ancient Greek history
Not even Mary Renault could get me interested in digging into Greek history. What finally did it for me was the PS2 game God of War. Now I want to know everything I can about Spartans but I don't want to pay too much money in the process.
Rating: - THE GREEK WAY
WE GAVE THIS BOOK TO OUR BROTHER-IN-LAW WHO WAS BORN IN GREECE. HE LOVES IT AND WANTS TO READ OTHER BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR,EDITH HAMILTON. WE ARE ALSO INTERESTED IN ALL OF HER BOOKS.
Rating: - A very learned view of the classical greeks
The first thing one encounters when reading Edith Hamilton's 'The Greek Way' is her love and even exuberance for her subject. Her opening remarks describe the classical greek worldview; an ability to grasp the world as it is, and still find it to be beautiful. This grasp this people had on reality would allow them to create the pictorial art, the art of the stage, here not including the dialogue and the dinner/drinking party, all still enjoyed much in the same manner today as the greeks enjoyed them ... Read More
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