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The Greek Way
Edith Hamilton Paperback edition W. W. Norton & Company, 1993 ISBN: 0-393-31077-9 Originally published: 1930 193 indexable pages 339 headings, subheadings 804 locators, 14 cross references |
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For Americans, The Greek Way is the classic description of the wondrous contributions of the ancient Greeks to Western civilization. Many of us have read it several times for pleasure as well as to satisfy course requirements. Like its companion volume, The Roman Way, a major reason for the book's continuing interest is Hamilton's comparisons of Western civilization to other civilizations, and of Western artists and thinkers of the same period to each other and to artists and thinkers of later periods of history. |
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A Æschylus, 145–156 austerity, 61 birth of tragedy, 139 Electra, his, 193–194, 198 Euripides compared to, 168, 170–171 Pindar compared to, 63 religion, 174 Shakespeare compared to, 149–152, 151–152, 186–189 Sophocles compared to, 24, 159–161, 162, 163, 164 versatility, 72 Agathon, 71, 73, 79–81 Age of the Tyrants, 25 Akhenaton, 19 Alcibiades, 74, 121, 182 Anabasis (Xenophon), 130–137 Anaxagoras, 25 ancient world Egypt representative of, 15, 17–19 Greece compared to, 15, 17, 28 Antigone (character), 140, 142, 161 Apollo, 178–180 architecture Egyptian, 42–43 Greek, 42–44, 45, 184–185 Indian, 42 aristocracy, 57–59, 61 Aristophanes, 77–97 artistic freedom, 29, 161 on Athenians, 69, 114 on Eleusian mysteries, 179–180 Gilbert compared to, 84–96 Shakespeare compared to, 77–78 Aristotle on Euripides, 165 on excellence, 175, 183 on happiness, 182 as scientist, 31, 32 slavery, 99 on tragedy, 140, 180 art and balance between mind and spirit, 35–36, 40, 200–201 of East and West compared, 38–39 Egyptian, 36–37, 39 |
art (continued) Greek, 31, 38–39, 41–42, 45, 138 Greek religion defined by, 174–175 Indian, 41 Italian Renaissance, 40–41, 203 Middle Ages, 40, 43 mystical artists, 39–40 symbolism in, 39–40, 42 Aspasia, 73 Athens Athenian society, 69–71, 76, 79–84, 125–128 democracy in, 120–121, 131 legacy, 13 Pindar's praise of, 62 post-Peloponnesian War, 123, 180–181 post-Persian Wars, 100, 116, 147, 157–158 rise and fall, 115–119, 120–124 B beauty, Greek love of, 66–68, 138–139, 147, 160, 176, 182, 202 Bible, Greek literature compared to, 50–52, 156, 200–201 Buddhism, 20, 36, 38 C character (human), 176, 184 Christ, 200–201 Christianity, early, mind and spirit in, 202–203 Cicero, 179 civilization, 66 classical world, 15 Clearchus, 133 Clytemnestra, Lady Macbeth compared to, 186–189 comedy. See Old Comedy Crete, 15 Croesus, 27 Cyrus, 132, 135 D Darius the Great, 102, 105, 106, 108 Delphi, 27, 101, 109, 110, 130, 178, 180 Demeter, 179 democracy, 120–121 Dionysus, 178–180 |
drama audience, 82, 85–86, 96 characterization in, 192–201 Old Comedy, 24, 77, 78, 82, 96–97 religion and, 180 tragedy (see tragedy) E East and West art of, compared, 38–39 Greece, balance between, 17 Greece, the West's birthplace, 15–16 India, representative of the East, 19–20 mind and spirit in, 205 Egypt ancient world, representative of, 15, 17–19 architecture in, 42–43 art in, 36–37, 39 geography, 22 Greece compared to, 22, 23, 24, 25, 31 mind and spirit in, 17 priests in, 18–19, 37 Electra (character), 163, 193–199 Eleusinian mysteries, 179 English literature, French literature compared to, 199 Euripides, 165–172 Æschylus compared to, 168, 170–171 Electra, his, 195–199 Isaiah compared to, 167, 169 Shakespeare compared to, 189–192 slavery's opponent, 99 Sophocles compared to, 168, 170, 172 evil, 181, 182 excellence, 24, 175, 183 F facts, 16, 35–36, 47–50, 67–68, 101, 202 Falstaff, 78, 200 fate (Necessity), 177, 185, 189 freedom, 25, 98, 130–131 freedom of speech, 29, 78–79, 96, 101 French literature English literature compared to, 199 Russian literature compared to, 143 |
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