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Greek Realities

Greek Realities

Hooper, Finley

Paperback

Series: Life and Thought in Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece

ISBN10: 0814315976
ISBN13: 9780814315972
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: Aug 1 1978
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.27
Height: 1.12 Width: 5.66 Depth: 8.56
Language: English

A history of ancient Greek life and thought from the Mycenaean kings to Alexander, Aristotle and Diogenes.

The study of the Greeks can never be a closed account. The wide variety of critical and descriptive works written about them . . . . bears witness to man's continuing preoccupation with himself. Other ages might talk of God or machines; the Greeks, from Homer to Diogenes, were fascinated with man. Plato's emphasis on the spiritual world and Diogenes' unheroic retreat may seem to be departures from the Greek way. But that would be true if there were a single Greek way. Obviously, there was not. It is the variety of ideas about man, who he is and who he hopes to be, which is the real Greek legacy . . . . This book [begins] with the rich tombs of Mycenaean kings who tried desperately to preserve what they had won. It ends with Diogenes and his fellow Cynics who say that it is better to let it all go. In between are the heroes, the art, the history which belong to the ancient Greeks. The questions they raised and the answers they offered are still the concern of us all.
--Finley Hooper

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