![]() ![]() Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea is the fourth in his projected seven-book Hinges of History series, which began with the best-selling How the Irish Saved Civilization, and continued with The Gifts of the Jews and Desire of the Everlasting Hills.Ĭahill has been widely praised for his ability to synthesize history, sociology and religion in entertaining and accessible fashion. That connection to ancient times gave him pause because his books are about how previous ages have shaped our own. ![]() I’d never seen it before, and I realized that must be what Homer had seen.” And I was looking across a bay and there was this combination of vegetation and light and shadow, and down deep, it was like a cloth of purple rippling along the ocean floor. “But you never see an enormous horizon of water because of the islands and peninsulas. “Because Greece is so cut up topographically, there’s hardly any famous place that you’re not in sight of the sea,” says the author and historian. ![]() He’d always thought the phrase was just a metaphor until he returned to Greece this summer to check some details for his forthcoming book, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter. Thomas Cahill was basking in the “glories that were Greece” when he finally saw Homer’s famous wine-dark sea. ![]()
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