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The Greek View of Life
G. Lowes Dickinson
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This elegantly-written work provides a splendid introduction to the Greeks of the classic period: how they thought, wrote, and organised their lives and loves. Although it dates from the 1890s, there is very little about it that has dated. To its author’s credit, the subject of “Greek love” is dealt with in a sane and factual context - despite the judicial assassination of Oscar Wilde going on in the background.
The Greek View of Life is no dry academic tome. It is a popularizing work in the best sense: accessibly written and illustrated with apt quotations given in sturdy translations, never in the original Greek. It is a joy to read.
This elegantly-written work provides a splendid introduction to the Greeks of the classic period: how they thought, wrote, and organised their lives and loves. Although it dates from the 1890s, there is very little about it that has dated. To its author’s credit, the subject of “Greek love” is dealt with in a sane and factual context - despite the judicial assassination of Oscar Wilde going on in the background.
The Greek View of Life is no dry academic tome. It is a popularizing work in the best sense: accessibly written and illustrated with apt quotations given in sturdy translations, never in the original Greek. It is a joy to read.
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And is that all? In the divine tug of war Zeus is more than a match for all the other gods together! Is it on this that the lordship of heaven and earth depends? This that we are to worship as highest, we of the brain and heart and soul? And even so, even admitting the ground of supremacy, with what providence or consistency of purpose is it exercised? Why, Zeus himself is as capricious as the rest! Because Thetis comes whining to him about an insult put upon Achilles, he interferes to change the whole course of the war, and that too by means of a lying dream! Even his own direct decrees he can hardly be induced to observe. His son Sarpedon, for example, who is "fated," as he says himself, to die, he is yet at the last moment in half a mind to save alive! How is such division possible in the will of the supreme god? Or is the "fate" of which he speaks somet. . . Read More
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This book gives excellent intensive analysis on how the ancient Greeks viewed religion, state, people, and art. As the description of the audio book says, "there is very little about it that has dated." How the views are different from the modern Westerners' is especially emphasized.
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I've never thought that I would be able to read about history even that am in love with this genre but the greek view of life is just amzing, I really recognize some different stuff about the old Greek, the way of their thinking, the lifestyle, the diffrent principles and believe , a book about the
Nothing is better than the primitive human , where there were no obstacles that may ruin his lifestyle, the book is amzing as well as I learned different things in that huge history .
Still the best out there (perhaps - I could be out of touch). Succinct, condensed, my style.
It's old and outdated in some ways, but it is very well written and insightful in many places.
Poor writing, but interesting exploration of culture in Greece...more
It was interesting but outdated and the title should be the Greek View of Life in contrast to the view of life of the English christian of the 1900s. So it was not really what I was expecting but I still learned a few things.
This book, written in 1912, was not at all what I thought it would be. In many ways, I found it to be antiquated in how the information was presented. I glossed over parts that I knew more about (I studied art history so the information contained in that section didn't appeal to me as much.) But als