![]() ![]() ![]() Granting equal time to the sacred and the profane, Cahill rivets our attention to the legacies of an ancient and enduring worldview. 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. By developing the alphabet, the Greeks empowered the reader, demystified experience, and opened the way for civil discussion and experimentation - yet they kept slaves. 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. Over the course of 264 pages of text, Cahill looks. ![]() ![]() But Cahill’s answer to why the Greeks matter is two-fold. In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore “the hinges of history,” Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining - and historically unassailable - journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago. Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter by Thomas Cahill 3.8 (10) Paperback (Reprint) 19.00 Paperback 19.00 eBook 14.99 Audiobook 0. Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, the fourth volume of Thomas Cahill’s Hinges of History, examines and explains the structure of Greek society and ideas as well as the reasons why it has permeated so much of what we know of Western culture. ![]()
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