Sailing the wine-dark sea: why the Greeks matter $ $ Sailing the wine-dark sea: why the Greeks matter quantity. Add to cart. SKU: Category. In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Thomas Cahill explores the legacy, good and bad, of the ancient Greeks. From the origins of Greek culture in the migrations of armed Indo-European tribes into Attica and the Peloponnesian peninsula, to the formation of the city-states, to the birth of Western literature, poetry, drama, philosophy, art, and architecture, Cahill makes the distant past relevant to the present. In the Irish American Roman Catholic Thomas Cahill’s “Introduction” to his book Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (New York and London: Talese/ Doubleday, pages ), he recounts a few autobiographical highlights of his childhood and adolescent years growing up in New York City (pages ).Cited by:
In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Thomas Cahill explores their legacy, good and bad. While the Jews gave us our value system, the Greeks set the foundation and framework for our intellectual lives. They are responsible for our vocabulary, our logic, our entire system of categorization, and the intellectual tools we use in philosophy, mathematics. And, centuries before Zorba, Greece was a land where music, dance, and freely flowing wine were essential to the high life. Granting equal time to the sacred and the profane, Cahill rivets our attention to the legacies of an ancient and enduring worldview. Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter - eBook () by Thomas Cahill. In "Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter" Cahill leans so prominently on the texts of Greek lore, one is scarcely able to sift between myth and matter. This frustrated me at first, since he seemed to imply that the Greek psyche was built (along with the language) as an indistinguishable amalgam of story and reality.
In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore "the hinges of history," Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining--and historically unassailable--journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago. In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek islands, honors could be won in making love and war, and lives were rife with contradictions. "In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his latest bestselling work of popular history, Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining-and historically unassailable-journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago. In the Irish American Roman Catholic Thomas Cahill’s “Introduction” to his book Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (New York and London: Talese/ Doubleday, pages ), he recounts a few autobiographical highlights of his childhood and adolescent years growing up in New York City (pages ).
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