About the Author

Victor Davis Hanson is Professor of Classics at California State University, Fresno, and author of Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece (revised edition, California 1998), The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization (revised edition, California 1999), and Fields without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Idea (1996).

Reviews

"Enthralling. . . . One closes this book wishing that its final verdict was as well known as more familiar tenets of Greek wisdom."--Christopher Hitchens, "Newsday"