Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter-Fast Shipping

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization takes us on a
journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago.

“A triumph of popularization: extraordinarily knowledgeable, informal in tone, amusing, wide ranging, smartly paced.” —The New York Times Book Review

In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greekislands, honors could be won in making love and war, and lives were rife with developing the alphabet, the Greeks empowered the reader, demystified experience,and opened the way for civil discussion and experimentation—yet they kept glorious verses of the Iliad recount a conflict in which rage and outrage spurmen to action and suggest that their “bellicose society of gleaming metals and rattlingweapons” is not so very distant from more recent campaigns of “shock and awe.” And,centuries before Zorba, Greece was a land where music, dance, and freely flowingwine 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.