Edith Hall The Ancient Greeks (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Ancient GreeksCondition: NewEAN: 9780099583646ISBN: 9780099583646Publisher: VintageFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/10/2016Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 20mmItem Weight: 234gAuthor: Edith HallLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern WorldISBN-10: 009958364XDescription: They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories of Leonidas’s three hundred Spartans and Alexander the Great. But who were the ancient Greeks? And what was it that enabled them to achieve so much? Here, Edith Hall gives us a revelatory way of viewing this geographically scattered people, visiting different communities at various key moments during twenty centuries of ancient history. Identifying ten unique traits central to the widespread ancient Greeks, Hall unveils a civilization of incomparable richness and a people of astounding complexity – and explains how they made us who we are today. ‘A thoroughly readable and illuminating account of this fascinating people… This excellent book makes us admire and like the ancient Greeks equally’Independent‘A worthy and lively introduction to one of the two groups of ancient peoples who really formed the western world’Sunday Times‘Throughout, Hall exemplifies her subjects’ spirit of inquiry, their originality and their open-mindedness’Daily Telegraph‘A book that is both erudite and splendidly entertaining’Financial Times Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: HistoryTopic: Ancient HistoryRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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