The Other Greeks Quotes

“With the demise of the inward-looking, stodgy yeomen, enormous wealth and poverty ensued. The Greek-speaking Hellenistic world could now use the Hellenic genius without ethical constraint.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western

“The life of a farmer is increasingly Hobbesian—poor, nasty, and brutish, even if not always short. It has been my own experience that many who still rise to that challenge today are themselves hard-nosed, peculiar, dogmatic, and distasteful characters, better appreciated at a distance, myself perhaps included. My purposes in deviating somewhat from a ‘professional’ stance are threefold.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western