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"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read 'President Can't Swim'."
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 Format: Hardcover, 541 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0029137519
Release Date: Jan 10, 1994
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Everyone has been taught that the Greek city-state is the ultimate source of the Western tradition in literature, philosophy, and politics. For generations, scholars have focused on the rise of the city-state and its brilliant cosmopolitan culture. Now Victor Hanson, the author of several studies of ancient warfare and agriculture, has written a book that will completely change our view of Greek society. For Hanson shows that the real "Greek revolution" was not the rise of a free and democratic urban culture, remarkable as this was, but the historic innovation of the independent family farm. The heroes of his book, therefore, are what he calls "the other Greeks" - the neglected free-hold farmers, vinegrowers and herdsmen of ancient Greece who formed the backbone of Hellenic civilization. It was these tough-minded, practical, and fiercely independent agrarians, Hanson contends, who gave Greek culture its distinctive emphasis on private property, constitutional government, contractual agreements, infantry warfare, and individual rights.
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"Victor D. Hanson's brilliant study, The Other Greeks, is the most original and important contribution to an understanding of the ancient Greeks I have ever read. Its discovery and explanation of the agrarian revolution that produced the family farm for the first time in human history provides the best explanation yet produced for what has been called 'the Greek miracle' at the root of Western civilization and of the modern world. It is also an instructive lesson in the importance for a free society of a significant number of independent farmers and the threat to our democracy posed by their disappearance. Deeply learned, it is also clearly and movingly written." -- Donald Kagan
| |  | | | | Acknowledgments | | | Author's Note | | | Introduction: Agrarianism, Ancient and Modern: The Origin of Western Values and the Price of Their Decline | 1 | | Pt. 1 | The Rise of Small Farmers in Ancient Greece | | | 1 | The Liberation of Agriculture | 25 | | 2 | Laertes' Farm: The Rise of Intensive Greek Agriculture | 47 | | 3 | Hesiod's Works and Days: The Privilege of the Struggle | 91 | | 4 | The Ways of Farmers | 127 | | Pt. 2 | The Preservation of Agrarianism | | | 5 | Before Democracy: Agricultural Egalitarianism and the Ideology Behind Greek Constitutional Government | 181 | | 6 | The Ways of Fighters | 221 | | 7 | The Economy of Agrarian Warfare | 291 | | Pt. 3 | To Lose a Culture | | | 8 | Hoplites as Dinosaurs | 327 | | 9 | The Erosion of the Agrarian Polis | 357 | | 10 | Epilogue: World Beneath Our Feet | 405 | | Appendix: Farming Words | 435 | | Notes | 445 | | Abbreviations of Ancient Authors and Works | 499 | | Bibliography of Works Cited | 507 | | Index | 531 |
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