Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind
Year: 2015 Language: english Author: Edith Hall Genre: History Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Edition: 1 ISBN: 0393351165, 978-0393351163 Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 336 Description: The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, acclaimed classics scholar Edith Hall offers a bold synthesis of the full 2,000 years of Hellenic history to show how the ancient Greeks were the right people, at the right time, to take up the baton of human progress. Hall portrays a uniquely rebellious, inquisitive, individualistic people whose ideas and creations continue to enthrall thinkers centuries after the Greek world was conquered by Rome. These are the Greeks as you’ve never seen them before. 2 maps; 12 illustrations
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Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind
Language: english
Author: Edith Hall
Genre: History
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0393351165, 978-0393351163
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 336
Description: The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, acclaimed classics scholar Edith Hall offers a bold synthesis of the full 2,000 years of Hellenic history to show how the ancient Greeks were the right people, at the right time, to take up the baton of human progress. Hall portrays a uniquely rebellious, inquisitive, individualistic people whose ideas and creations continue to enthrall thinkers centuries after the Greek world was conquered by Rome. These are the Greeks as you’ve never seen them before.
2 maps; 12 illustrations
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