The Other Greeks
Title | The Other Greeks PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Davis Hanson |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 600 |
Release | 1999-12-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520209350 |
Victor Hanson shows that the "Greek revolution" was not the rise of a free and democratic urban culture, but rather the historic innovation of the independent family farm."--BOOK JACKET.
Other Greeks
Title | Other Greeks PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Davis Hanson |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 843 |
Release | 1995-06-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1439105634 |
Everyone has been taught that the Greek city-state is the ultimate source of the Western tradition in literature, philosophy, and politics. For generations, scholars have focused on the rise of the city-state and its brilliant cosmopolitan culture. Now Victor Hanson, the author of several studies of ancient warfare and agriculture, has written a book that will completely change our view of Greek society. For Hanson shows that the real "Greek revolution" was not the rise of a free and democratic urban culture, remarkable as this was, but the historic innovation of the independent family farm. The heroes of his book, therefore, are what he calls "the other Greeks" - the neglected freehold farmers, vinegrowers and herdsmen of ancient Greece who formed the backbone of Hellenic civilization. It was these tough-minded, pracitcal, and fiercely independent agrarians, Hanson contends, who gave Greek culture its distinctive emphasis on private property, constitutional government, contractual agreements, infantry warfare, and individual rights. Hanson's reconstruction of ancient Greek farm life, informed by the hands-on knowledge of the subject (he is a fifth-generation California vine and fruit-grower), is fresh, comprehensive, and totally absorbing. But his detailed chronicle of the rise and tragic fall of the Greek city-state also helps us to grasp the implications of what may be the single most significant trend in American life today - namely, the imminent extinction of the family farm. Since Thomas Jefferson Hanson points out, American democracy has been though to depend on the virtues that have traditionally been bred on the farm: self-reliance, honesty, skepticism, a healthy suspicion of urban sophistication, and a stern ethic of accountability, which, as the Greeks teach us, have always been the core values of democratic citizenship. Hanson rightly fears the consequences for American democracy when the family farm disappears, taking with it our last links to the agrarian roots of Western civilization.
The Other Greeks
Title | The Other Greeks PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Davis Hanson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 592 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Everyone has been taught that the Greek city-state is the ultimate source of the Western tradition in literature, philosophy, and politics. For generations, scholars have focused on the rise of the city-state and its brilliant cosmopolitan culture. Now Victor Hanson, the author of several studies of ancient warfare and agriculture, has written a book that will completely change our view of Greek society. For Hanson shows that the real "Greek revolution" was not the rise of a free and democratic urban culture, remarkable as this was, but the historic innovation of the independent family farm. The heroes of his book, therefore, are what he calls "the other Greeks" - the neglected free-hold farmers, vinegrowers and herdsmen of ancient Greece who formed the backbone of Hellenic civilization. It was these tough-minded, practical, and fiercely independent agrarians, Hanson contends, who gave Greek culture its distinctive emphasis on private property, constitutional government, contractual agreements, infantry warfare, and individual rights.
The Book of the Ancient Greeks
Title | The Book of the Ancient Greeks PDF eBook |
Author | Dorothy Mills |
Publisher | |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Greece |
ISBN |
A continuation of the author's "Book of the ancient world" and similar to it in scope and form. It covers the period from the coming of the Greeks to 146 B.C.
On Germans and Other Greeks
Title | On Germans and Other Greeks PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis J. Schmidt |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2001-09-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780253214430 |
Tracing the efforts of philosophers to appropriate the issues opened up by tragedy as a literary form, Dennis Schmidt makes the argument that in the struggle to come to terms with the issues raised by tragedy, new and progressive avenues for addressing the questions of ethic life have come to the fore.
7 Greeks
Title | 7 Greeks PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780811212885 |
"Overall, this volume will afford great pleasure to scholars, teachers, and also those who simply love to watch delightful souls disport themselves in language."--Anne Carson
Wars of the Ancient Greeks (Smithsonian History of Warfare)
Title | Wars of the Ancient Greeks (Smithsonian History of Warfare) PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Davis Hanson |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2006-12-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0061142085 |
This brilliant account covers a millennium of Greek warfare. With specially commissioned battle maps and vivid illustrations, Victor Davis Hanson takes the reader into the heart of Greek warfare, classical beliefs, and heroic battles. This colorful portrait of ancient Greek culture explains why their approach to fighting was so ruthless and so successful. Development of the Greek city-state and the rivalries of Athens and Sparta. Rise of Alexander the Great and the Hellenization of the Western world. Famous thinkers—Sophocles, Socrates, Demosthenes—who each faced his opponent in battle, armed with spear and shield. Unsurpassed military theories that still influence the structure of armies and the military today.