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Acclaimed classics scholar Edith Hall's Launching the Old Greeks is the first booklet to give you a synthesis of the entire ancient Greek experience, from the go up of the Mycenaean kingdoms of the sixteenth century BC to the final win of Christianity over paganism in Advertising 391. Each of the ten chapters trips another Greek community at another moment through the twenty hundreds of years of ancient Greek history. Along the way, the booklet makes a robust original debate: A cluster of unique attributes made the Greeks special and made them the right people, at the right time, to take up the baton of real human progress. Relating to Herodotus, the daddy of background, what made all Greeks identifiably Greek was their common descent from the same heroes, just how they sacrificed to their gods, their rules of decent action, and their beautiful terminology. Edith Hall argues, however, that their mind-set was just as important as their awe-inspiring achievements. These were rebellious, individualistic, inquisitive, open-minded, witty, rivalrous, admiring of superiority, articulate, and addicted to pleasure. But most important was their ongoing personality as mariners, the restless seagoing lifestyle that helped bring them into connection with ethnically diverse peoples in many new settlements, and the constant stimulus to technological innovation provided by their extreme relationship with the sea. Expertly investigated and elegantly advised, Launching the Old Greeks is an indispensable contribution to your understanding of the Greeks.
