The Greek Way

From the author of the classic Mythology, “a book of both cultural and critical importance” reveals ancient Greece through literature, philosophy, and art (The New York Times).

“Five hundred years before Christ. . . . Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius. . . . What was then produced of art and of thought has never been surpassed and very rarely equaled, and the stamp of it is upon all the art and all the thought of the Western world.” —Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way

Acclaimed author Edith Hamilton captures the spirit and achievements of ancient Greece through her vivid and lively examination of Greek thought and culture. First published in 1930, The Greek Way illuminates the connection between the modern world and the world of the ancient Greeks through the writings of historians Herodotus and Thucydides, the poetry of Pindar, the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides, as well as other luminaries of fifth-century Athens. A classic book enjoyed by scholars and general readers alike, The Greek Way is a seminal work on Greece’s Golden Age.

“[The Greek Way] distills the essence of classical Greece for the general reader.” -The Huffington Post