The Other Greeks
Subtitle: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: December 22, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9780520209350
Subjects: History; Land use, Rural; Family; Ancient Greece - History; History - General History; History: World; Greece; Ancient - Greece; History / Ancient / General; Ancient - General; Agriculture; Agriculture, Ancient; Economic aspects
First sentence: Greece is not a flat territory of wide-open expanses, with regular precipitation, plentiful rivers, and ubiquitous lakes.
Description: "For generations, scholars have focused on the Greek city-state and its brilliant cosmopolitan culture as the ultimate source of the Western tradition in literature, philosophy, and politics. This passionate book leads us outside the city walls to the countryside, where the majority of the Greek citizenry lived, to find the true source of the cultural wealth of Greek civilization.

Victor Hanson shows that the "Greek revolution" was not the rise of a free and democratic urban culture, but rather the historic innovation of the independent family farm."--BOOK JACKET.