Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization
"In brief compass and clear, enjoyable prose, Professor Thornton has written a stimulating and delightful account of the remarkable and revolutionary characteristics that distinguished the Greeks of the ancient world from all societies before and since.  In the process he responds with calm reason and broad and deep learning to the unhistorical, tendentious and foolish assaults launched against them as part of current political agendas.  The happy result is this spendid book that allows the Greeks themselves to speak and reveal the absurdity of the modern barbarians who abuse them.  -Donald Kagan, Hillhouse Professor of History and Classics, Yale Univeristy.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.