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Sailing the Wine Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter   Thomas Cahill
Brief, popular, and pseudo-scholarly glance at ancient Greek culture, thought, and politics. At times, Cahill’s tone seems unjustifiably flippant and superior. Also, he couldn’t resist talking about Christianity in an inappropriate and irrelevant closing section. But I’ve loved the Athenians since I first encountered them, spent years studying and writing about Greek philosophy, so even Cahill couldn’t wreck that. Not bad, wish it had been better.