Reviews for The great dialogue

The average rating for The great dialogue based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-03-11 00:00:00 Christopher Hoyle Kagan does a good job (and this is an understatement) in addressing how Greeks used writing as a form of recording ideas and dialogue about the world as they saw it, and how that vision developed over time. I focused on the last chapter dealing with Polybius, but this is worth a read for anyone interested in studying the writings from the historians of ancient Greece.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-11-18 00:00:00 Tom Fleming Interesting book. Richard discusses in depth how the ancients (Greeks & Romans)influneced the founding generations. Somewhat difficult to describe the differnt topics of the book but it definitley is not for the casual reader whose primary reading time is at night and staying awake is a must. I will have to read this again at another time too as it was pretty hard to get through. Not a lot of places in the chapters to stop and take a break either which was annoying. I enjoyed reading how Adams, Jefferson, Madison, etc. relied on the writings of Aristotle, Cicero, Plato, Socrates, and a bunch of other ancients, whose names I can't pronounce or spell, as reference for making arguments at the Constitutional Convention and other important moments. Not for pleasure or casual reading, but it was interesting.