It's All Greek To Me: From Homer to the Hippocratic Oath, How Ancient Greece Has Shaped Our World

A lively look at the influence of Ancient Greece on contemporary culture—"A primer, lavish lecture and love song" (Kirkus Reviews).

Why is ancient Greece important? Because, quite simply, if we want to understand the modern Western world, we need to look back to the Greeks. Consider the way we think about ethics, about the nature of beauty and truth, about our place in the universe, about our mortality. All this we have learned from the ancient Greeks. They molded the basic disciplines a...