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- catalog abstract ""In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his latest bestselling work of popular 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. In ancient Greece, honors could be won in making love and war, and lives were rife with contradictions. By developing the alphabet, the Greeks empowered the reader and encouraged civil discussion--yet they kept slaves. The glorious verses of the Iliad 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 wine were essential to the high life. Granting equal time to the sacred and the profane, Cahill rivets our attention to the legacies of an ancient and enduring worldview."".
- catalog contributor b12956902.
- catalog coverage "Greece Civilization To 146 B.C.".
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his latest bestselling work of popular 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. In ancient Greece, honors could be won in making love and war, and lives were rife with contradictions. By developing the alphabet, the Greeks empowered the reader and encouraged civil discussion--yet they kept slaves. The glorious verses of the Iliad 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 wine were essential to the high life. Granting equal time to the sacred and the profane, Cahill rivets our attention to the legacies of an ancient and enduring worldview."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-284) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction : the way they came -- I. The warrior : how to fight -- II. The wanderer : how to feel -- III. The poet : how to party -- IV. The politician and the playwright : how to rule -- V. The philosopher : how to think -- VI. The artist : how to see -- VII. The way they went : Greco-Roman meets Judeo-Christian.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 304 p., [32] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Sailing the wine-dark sea.".
- catalog identifier "0385495536 (hc)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Sailing the wine-dark sea.".
- catalog isPartOf "Cahill, Thomas. Hinges of history ; v. 4.".
- catalog isPartOf "The hinges of history ; v. 4".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday,".
- catalog relation "Sailing the wine-dark sea.".
- catalog spatial "Greece Civilization To 146 B.C.".
- catalog subject "909/.09821 21".
- catalog subject "Civilization, Western Greek influences.".
- catalog subject "DF77 .C28 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : the way they came -- I. The warrior : how to fight -- II. The wanderer : how to feel -- III. The poet : how to party -- IV. The politician and the playwright : how to rule -- V. The philosopher : how to think -- VI. The artist : how to see -- VII. The way they went : Greco-Roman meets Judeo-Christian.".
- catalog title "Sailing the wine-dark sea : why the Greeks matter / Thomas Cahill.".
- catalog type "text".