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From the Inside Flap: Here for the first time is a close analysis of the killing. Too long glossed over or completely ignored by generations of analysts of Hellenic civilization, this aspect of the Greek character gods, heroes, tyrants and citizens, but was a major theme running through its greatest literature. How Greek attitudes towards violence, revenge and wanton murder changed over the centuries, without ever becoming resolved, is traced and analyzied with deep psychological insight in Mr. Sagan's book.


His extensive readings in anthropology and psychology led Sagan to write on the subject of cultural anthropology. He authored several books on the subject, including 1985's At the Dawn of Tyranny: The Origins of Individualism, Political Oppression and the State, the 1991 work The Honey and the Hemlock: Democracy and Paranoia in Ancient Athens and Modern America, and his 2001 book Citizens & Cannibals: The French Revolution, the Struggle for Modernity and the Origins of Ideological Terror.[2] he also wrote a book on the history of cannibalism in the early seventies.