Background Knowledge Edith Hamilton was 63 when her first and probably her best-regarded book The Greek Way was published in 1930. In it she wrote about how the Greeks appreciated and encouraged freedom of mind and spirit. She described the Greek approach to life as the "extraordinary flowering of...
These centuries are considered by many to be the most creative and influential period in history. ... Most of his writings were about politics, poetry, ethics, botany, physics, metaphysics, rhetoric, astronomy, zoology, logic and psychology. ... Later, Herodotus (ca. 485-425BC.) and Thucydides (ca. 455-397BC.) founded history-writing. Herodotus' history was relied on information of older people that he interviewed. ... Most of the history that they wrote was on the Peloponnesian war. ...
