The Greeks: History, Culture, and Society

In The Greeks, Ian Morris and Barry B. Powell try to see ancient Greece as a whole: not just a narrative of events or an overview of culture, but history and culture taken together. From ancient Greece comes the modern conviction that through open discussion and the exercise of reason a society of free citizens can solve the problems that challenge it. In one period of Greek history, a society just so governed produced timeless masterpieces of literature, art, and rational thought at the same time that it waged terrible wars and committed countless cruelties. If we understand the past, we can live better in the present, but the past is hard to understand. In The Greeks, Morris and Powell offer new ways of thinking about old problems.

Author: Ian Morris, Barry B. Powell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 11/12/2021
Pages: 608
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.29lbs
Size: 9.31h x 7.52w x 1.17d
ISBN13: 9780197586891
ISBN10: 0197586899
BISAC Categories:
- History | Ancient | Greece
- History | Europe | Greece (see also Ancient | Greece)
- History | Civilization

About the Author

Ian Morris is the Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics at Stanford University.

Barry B. Powell is the Halls-Bascom Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.