1. East and West -- pg. 7

2. Mind and Spirit -- pg. 18

3. The Way of the East and the West in Art -- pg. 35

4. The Greek Way of Writing -- pg. 47

5. Pindar, the Last Greek Aristocrat -- pg. 58

6. The Athenians As Plato Saw Them -- pg. 72

7. Aristophanes and the Old Comedy -- pg. 88

8. Herodotus, the First Sight-seer -- pg. 113

9. Thucydides, the Thing That Hath Been Is That Which Shall Be -- pg. 131

10. Xenophon, the Ordinary Athenian Gentleman -- pg. 147

11. The Idea of Tragedy -- pg. 164

12. Aeschylus, the First Dramatist -- pg. 173

13. Sophocles, Quintessence of the Greek -- pg. 187

14. Euripides, the Modern Mind -- pg. 197

15. The Religion of the Greeks -- pg. 207

16. The Way of the Greeks -- pg. 221

17. The Way of the Modern World -- pg. 243

References -- pg. 249

In this brilliant book you will share this joy as you dine and talk with Socrates, hunt with Xenophon, listen to the orations of Pericles and join the audience at performances of the great dramas of Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus, and Aristophanes. You will travel with Herodotus, the world's first sight seer, and learn of war and suffering from Thucydides. And most important, you will understand the Greek's greatest achievement-the development of that perfect balance between spirit and mind which holds a vital meaning for the world today.