"Nearly 70 years ago, Edith Hamilton published The Greek Way, an immediate classic that educated two generations of readers about the debt we owe the handful of Greek city-states that developed the "spirit of the West" some 2500 years ago. Now, in Greek Ways, Bruce Thornton has written a book that is for our time what Hamilton's was for a prior era - a reassertion of the Greeks' crucial role in creating Western civilization and in developing the core...