Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind - Edith Hall
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Unabridged
· Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
· Release date: 08-19-14
· Publisher: Audible Studios
The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, acclaimed classics scholar Edith Hall offers a bold synthesis of the full 2,000 years of Hellenic history to show how the ancient Greeks were the right people, at the right time, to take up the baton of human progress. Hall portrays a uniquely rebellious, inquisitive, individualistic people whose ideas and creations continue to enthrall thinkers centuries after the Greek world was conquered by Rome. These are the Greeks as you’ve never seen them before.
Publishers Weekly—April 14, 2014
”British classicist Hall has composed a panorama of two millennia of Hellenic history, depicting Greeks as sea lovers who “felt trapped when they were far inland.” Starting with the Minoan and Mycenaean thalassocracies (a political system based on sea domination), Hall embarks on an odyssey toward the four long poems of Homer and Hesiod that offer “unforgettable scenes of fighting, sailing, and farming,” pausing to appreciate the three essential crops—“grains, vines, and olives”—at the heart of Greek identity.
The meandering tour features a Who’s Who of Greek thinkers: scientists Thales and Anaximander; Heraclitus, first philosopher; Xenophanes of Colophon, “first skeptic”; Parmenides, founder of ontology; Zeno and his paradoxes; atomic theorist Democritus; comparative anthropologist Hecataeus; and Herodotus, historian and “Father of European Prose.” Greece’s “apex of creativity” in democratic Athens during the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. segues to the marching Argeads of Macedonia under Alexander the Great, who bequeathed his world empire “to the strongest.” Hall limns how the Greeks “colonized the minds of their Roman masters,” since “cultural hegemony has more lasting effects than political dominance.” The prose is fluid and lambent, and the chapters are lengthy.”
Not a light read, folks…
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This post has 9 comments with rating of 5/5
August 27th, 2021
I am having ISP problems, folks. Hope for the best….
August 28th, 2021
The Greeks: accept no substitute. Thanks, jo.
August 28th, 2021
Ah I wanted this for a long time, Finally it’s here!
Edith hall is World Treasurer.
Thank you jodindy the Goddess.
August 28th, 2021
Thank you so much for all your great uploads.The classical world by Professor Robin Lane Fox is another truly great book about Ancient Greece
August 28th, 2021
Second that - anything by Robin Lane Fox is of great interest.
August 28th, 2021
@Caesar963 have you got the Caesar! Nine BBC Radio Dramas? between all people I thought I would see your comment there lol
August 28th, 2021
I try to avoid anything Caesar-related; it’s a bit self-congratulatory.
June 22nd, 2024
Seed pleaser?
April 2nd, 2025
Could someone please seed!
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