{"product_id":"sailing-the-wine-dark-sea-why-the-greeks-matter-the-hinges-of-history-paperback","title":"Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (The Hinges of History) Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eHow the Irish Saved Civilization \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003etakes us on a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ejourney through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A triumph of popularization: extraordinarily knowledgeable, informal in tone, amusing, wide ranging, smartly paced.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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. By developing the alphabet, the Greeks empowered the reader, demystified experience, and opened the way for civil discussion and experimentation—yet they kept slaves. The glorious verses of the Iliad recount a conflict in which rage and outrage spur men to action and suggest that their “bellicose society of gleaming metals and rattling weapons” 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 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Blood on the Street ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47902712987870,"sku":null,"price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0604\/8687\/7406\/files\/gr1.png?v=1771123743","url":"https:\/\/bloodonthestreetcollectibles.com\/products\/sailing-the-wine-dark-sea-why-the-greeks-matter-the-hinges-of-history-paperback","provider":"Blood on the Street ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}