Each of the ten chapters visits a different Greek community at a different moment during the twenty centuries of Ancient Greek history.
According to Herodotus, the father of history, what made all Greeks identifiably Greek was their common descent From the same heroes, the way they sacrific.
In the process, the book makes a powerful original argument: A cluster of unique qualities made the Greeks special and made them the right people, at the right time, to take up the baton of human progress.
Each of the ten chapters visits a different Greek community at a different moment during the twenty centuries of Ancient Greek history