The Greek Way: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Greek Way, credited to Edith Hamilton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton. Read in English by E. Sharp. "The Greek Way" is an immersive and provocative exploration of Ancient Greece, viewed through the lens of the great thinkers, writers, and poets of that eminent society. Hamilton begins with an exploration of the mind-spirit duality of human nature, and its contrasting manifestations in the cultures of the East and West. She then proceeds to illustrate the unique character of Greek genius in all the ancient world. Starting with the Periclean age, and proceeding to future generations, she paints a living portrait of the Greeks in their heyday, and beyond. Familiar with the language of ancient Greece, she provides ample quotation of Greek poets and playwrights, which she uses to compare against Greeks of other generations, as well as artists of more recent times. Beauty in simplicity, love of nature and of life with all its faults, and awareness of one's place in the human world, are all exemplified in the selections chosen by Hamilton, which she uses to supplement this insightful history. Summary by E. Sharp

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Greek Way
• Author credits: Edith Hamilton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 9:12:18

Catalogue topics

• Ancient Greece
• greek philosophy
• ancient culture

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction and Author's Preface — 13:49
2. 01 - I - East and West — 23:57
3. 02 - II - Mind and Spirit — 38:03
4. 03 - III - The Way of the East and the West in Art — 27:40
5. 04 - IV - The Greek Way of Writing — 24:53
6. 05 - V - Pindar: The Last Greek Aristocrat — 31:17
7. 06 - VI - The Athenians as Plato Saw Them — 37:44
8. 07 - VII - Aristophanes and the Old Comedy — 45:49
9. 08 - VIII - Herodotus: The First Sight-Seer — 40:16
10. 09 - IX - Thucydides: The thing that hath been, etc. — 36:36
11. 10 - X - Xenophon: The Ordinary Athenian Gentleman — 39:17
12. 11 - XI - The Idea of Tragedy — 20:50
13. 12 - XII - Aeschylus: The First Dramatist — 33:35
14. 13 - XIII - Sophocles: Quintessence of the Greek — 22:51
15. 14 - XIV - Euripides: The Modern Mind — 24:11
16. 15 - XV - The Religion of the Greeks — 32:47
17. 16 - XVI - The Way of the Greeks — 45:28
18. 17 - XVII - The Way of the Modern World — 13:16

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