The Greek WayEdith Hamilton buoyantly captures the spirit and achievements of the Greek civilization for our modern world. In The Greek Way, Edith Hamilton captures with "Homeric power and simplicity" (New York Times) the spirit of the golden age of Greece in the fifth century BC, the time of its highest achievements. She explores the Greek aesthetics of sculpture and writing and the lack of ornamentation in both. She examines the works of Homer, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripides, among others; the philosophy of Socrates and Plato’s role in preserving it; the historical accounts by Herodotus and Thucydides on the Greek wars with Persia and Sparta and by Xenophon on civilized living. |
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... earth. In that black and fierce world a little centre of white-hot spiritual energy was at work. A new civilization had arisen in Athens, unlike all that had gone before. What brought this new development to pass, how the Greeks were ...
... earth and the vanity of all research into its nature is the centre of the faith. As in Egypt, the priests saw their opportunity. The power of the Brahmans, the priestly caste, and of the great Buddhist hierarchy, is nothing less than ...
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Contents
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The Way of the East and the West in Art | 40 |
The Greek Way of Writing | 52 |
The Athenians as Plato Saw Them | 78 |
Pindar The Last Greek Aristocrat 64 | 94 |
Herodotus The First Sightseer | 122 |
The Idea of Tragedy | 171 |
Æschylus The First Dramatist | 179 |
Sophocles Quintessence of the Greek | 195 |
Euripides The Modern Mind | 205 |
The Religion of the Greeks | 215 |
The Way of the Greeks | 229 |
The Way of the Modern World | 253 |
References | 259 |
Thucydides The Thing That Hath Been Is That x Xenophon The Ordinary Athenian Gentleman 155 | 139 |