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Bezig met laden... Sailing the Wine-dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003)door Thomas Cahill
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Cahill points out why some parts of history stand out. ( ) I've always been a fan of demotic erudition, and that's Cahill all over. Lots of fun, doubtless real historians might be given fits by some of Cahill's stretches, but heck . . . it's probably the most exercise they've had all day. A genuinely learned man's personal take on some things he's thought about a lot. V této knize, čtvrtém svazku autorova zkoumání „milníků historie“, Thomas Cahill doprovází čtenáře k dalšímu vystoupení – k cestě uměním a obdobím krveprolévání, které popisují téměř tři tisíce let starou řeckou kulturu. Již staletí před Zorbou bylo Řecko zemí, kde hudba, tanec a víno tekoucí proudem byly pro vysoký životní styl nepostradatelné. Cahill popisuje rovnoměrně duchovní i světské, a zaměřuje tak naši pozornost na odkaz starověku. A decent general introduction to Greek history and culture. It is populated with interesting insights and nifty stories that help elucidate the culture of the Greeks, how it evolved, and how modern Western society inherited it. The book suffers, though, from Cahill's every-now-and-then intruding opinions, which are generally of a leftist nature (for instance: boo George W. Bush [pp. 46, 250n], hooray John F. Kennedy [pp. 247-248]). It reads, sometimes, as a paean to hedonism. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"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." Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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