What do we mean when we speak of ancient Greeks? A person from the Archaic period? The war hero celebrated by Homer? Or the fourth century "political animal" described by Aristotle? In this book, leading scholars show what it meant to be Greek during the classical period of Greek civilization.
The Greeks offers the most complete portraits available of typical Greek personages from Athens to Sparta, Arcadia, Thessaly and Epirus to the city-states of Asia Minor, to the colonies of the Black Sea, southern Italy, and Sicily. Looking at the citizen, the religious believer, the soldier, the...

Our philosophy is grounded in only half a language, in which the power of discourse is deployed and the strength of listening ignored. We are inhabitants of a culture that knows how to speak but not how to listen, so constantly mistakes warring monologues for genuine dialogue. In this book, the author seeks to redress that balance by examining the other side of language - listening. Synthesizing the insights of Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Gadamer, among many others, puts forward a powerful argument for the replacement of the silent silence of traditional Western thought with the rich openness...