The Greeks by H. D. F. Kitto
Kitto’s The Greeks was a text for a graduate class in Greek Art I took at the University of St. Thomas in Houston some years ago. A wonderful and fascinating book. I read Gods, Graves and Scholars many times in my teen years, and many books on Greek mythology before that. An Amazon reviewer writes: “I got in touch with this book as a mandatory reading when I was applying to study at Buenos Aires University. As usually happens with prescribed readings, I eyed “The Greeks” with little enthusiasm. But to my big surprise it was a great read! Professor Kitto has done an outstanding work here. Now, after all this years, I treasure this volume in my library and read it again and again.”

On my own I read Victor Davis Hanson’s The Other Greeks. This is a terrific book and inspired me to write an article forThe Freeman (”Property Rights and Law Among the Ancient Greeks” where i discuss Hanson and other books I enjoyed reading). Hanson is a regular contributor to National Review and other conservative publications, and writes on the “Western Way of War” that we inherit from the Greeks. Hanson and John Heath are authors of Who Killed Homer?: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom. Here is an essay in Stanford Magazine by Heath and Hanson on Who Killed Homer?

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