{"product_id":"9780385495547","title":"Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHow the Irish Saved Civilization \u003c\/i\u003etakes us on a \u003cb\u003ejourney through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A triumph of popularization: extraordinarily knowledgeable, informal in tone, amusing, wide ranging, smartly paced.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek   islands, honors could be won in making love and war, and lives were rife with contradictions.   By developing the alphabet, the Greeks empowered the reader, demystified experience,   and opened the way for civil discussion and experimentation—yet they kept slaves.   The glorious verses of the Iliad recount a conflict in which rage and outrage spur   men to action and suggest that their “bellicose society of gleaming metals and rattling   weapons” is not so very distant from more recent campaigns of “shock and awe.” And,   centuries before Zorba, Greece was a land where music, dance, and freely flowing   wine were essential to the high life. Granting equal time to the sacred and the profane,   Cahill rivets our attention to the legacies of an ancient and enduring worldview.","brand":"Thomas Cahill","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45895201325268,"sku":"9780385495547","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_11d8b541-53e3-42b7-8bf1-bb205e264504.jpg?v=1732433951","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780385495547","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}