Review from previous edition a useful antidote to British sentimentality about ancient Greece
Philip Howard, The Times
Paul Cartledge's sharp and unsentimental new introduction to [the Greeks'] mentality ... forcefully shows that freedom-loving citizens could live at ease among hordes of slaves.
Boyd Tonkin, New Statesman & Society
the lively and succinct development of many ancient ... Read morenad modern arguments makes The Greeks a welcome and timely contribution to a number of continuing and important debates
Times Literary Supplement
lively, and very topical, book ... I know of no better book with which to introduce this 'portrait of self and others' to students at the sixth-form level or above.
Greece & Rome
He adopts a lightly unusual approach and discusses the 'dominant' group - male citizens - in its relations with woman, slaves, barbarians and the gods. It is an interesting approach.
Contemporary Review
With The Greeks Cartledge has achieved an up-to-date synthesis of Hellenic central concepts, thus furnishing teachers of ancient history and civilization with a valuable instrument, as I experienced in Greece when teaching European youth about their identity.
Mnemosyne
Cartledge's The Greeks is bracingly enthusiastic with inter-disciplinary influences and interests.
The Sunday Times
a study of the rise of a mentality, written in brilliant style, important, sometimes iconoclastic
Il pensiero politico
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