Life of Greece (Story of Civilization, #2)

by Will Durant

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Really such an immense achievement. It reads like a book with half the page count. The writing sucks you right in, which is a good thing, since there’s much more to follow.

My nitpick is how Durant editorializes in places, such as dismissing sexuality with the biases of his time, or ascribing humanism to ideas too early for it. It stands out because he stays objective elsewhere (and because I’ve been reading extensively on those subjects from other sources).

Which makes it just as interesting an artifact, IMO. All history gets shared through some lens, and we do well to remember.