The Other Greeks

This book claims that agrarianism was the first cause of the classical Greek achievement, that the family farm was the most fundamental thing the Greeks invented, and productive of most of their other inventions and discoveries.

Victor Davis Hanson is Professor of Classics at California State University, Fresno.

Preface to the 1999 edition

xi

Acknowledgments

xxv

Author's Note

xxix

Introduction: Agrarianism, Ancient and Modern: The Origin of Western Values and the Price of Their Decline

1

(24)

PART ONE: THE RISE OF SMALL FARMERS IN ANCIENT GREECE

The Liberation of Agriculture

25

(22)

Laertes' Farm: The Rise of Intensive Greek Agriculture

47

(42)

Hesiod's Works and Days: The Privilege of the Struggle

89

(36)

The Ways of Farmers

125

(54)

PART TWO: THE PRESERVATION OF AGRARIANISM

Before Democracy: Agricultural Egalitarianism and the Ideology Behind Greek Constitutional Government

179

(40)

The Ways of Fighters

219

(68)

The Economy of Agrarian Warfare

287

(34)

PART THREE: TO LOSE A CULTURE

Hoplites as Dinosaurs

321

(30)

The Erosion of the Agrarian Polis

351

(46)

Epilogue: World Beneath Our Feet

397

(30)

Appendix: Farming Words

427

(10)

Notes

437

(54)

Bibliography of Works Cited

491

(24)

Supplementary Bibliography

515

(12)

Index

527

(10)

Index Locorum

537

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