"Based on a thorough study of Greek life & civilization, of Greek literature, philosophy & art, The Greek Way interprets their meaning & brings a realization of the refuge & strength the past can be to us in the troubled present. Hamilton's book must take its place with the few interpretative volume...
It was recommended as a good starting point for understanding the classics, specifically focusing on ancient Greece, and its enduring impact.
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I would, to be frank, I would not read anything after 2000 because it's ideological...There's a good book, a classic book by Edith Hamilton called The Greek Way. It was classic in the 1940s.
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Episode: Victor Davis Hanson on the Crisis at the Border, t...
It was recommended as a good starting point for understanding the classics, specifically focusing on ancient Greece, and its enduring impact.
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I would, to be frank, I would not read anything after 2000 because it's ideological...There's a good book, a classic book by Edith Hamilton called The Greek Way. It was classic in the 1940s.
This book on Greek plays was mentioned as a source of inspiration for Robert F. Kennedy's speech following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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I have a book in the book sir if he has Edith what's her name no it's Wharton I don't know is it something Edith something and she wrote this book called the Greek way which is a sample survey course...
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Episode: Timothy Denevi on the Power of Reading and Learnin...
This book on Greek plays was mentioned as a source of inspiration for Robert F. Kennedy's speech following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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I have a book in the book sir if he has Edith what's her name no it's Wharton I don't know is it something Edith something and she wrote this book called the Greek way which is a sample survey course of all the Greek plays and that's where he gets what does he say we drop by drop we suffer onto truth or something like that he once she had made it like monotheistic like yeah even in our sleep you know pain or suffering you know drop by drop comes onto the heart yes ill you know through the awful grace of God you know we arrive at understanding yes basically we learn through pain and suffering and he was saying I've learned through pain and suffering the loss my brother you're now morning Martin Luther King rioting anger pain whatever won't do any won't solve this we gotta come together
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This book is cited as having been given to Robert F. Kennedy, profoundly impacting his perspective and leading him to quote Aeschylus in a famous speech after the death of Martin Luther King Jr.
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I'm just reading another book, it's funny by another Edith. I was reading a biography of Robert F. Kennedy and he's like in his 30s or 40s when he'd obviously been raised in a very Catholic family and someone gave him Edith Hamilton's book The Greek Way and it opens up this whole other side of him when Martin Luther King Jr. dies, he quotes Escalus which he gets from this book in this famous speech and that was Robert Kennedy, not John.
