The ancient Greeks : ten ways they shaped the modern world /​ Edith Hall

Title

• The ancient Greeks : ten ways they shaped the modern world / Edith Hall.

Uniform Title

• Introducing the ancient Greeks

Also Titled

• Introducing the ancient Greeks.

Author

• Hall, Edith, 1959-, (author.)

Published

• London Vintage, 2016.

Copyright

• ©2015

Content Types

• cartographic image
• still image
• text

Carrier Types

• volume

Physical Description

• 305 pages ; 20 cm.

Subjects

• National characteristics, Greek.
• Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.
• Greece -- History -- 146 B.C.-323 A.D.
• Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.

Summary

• 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' 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 civilisation of incomparable richness and a people of astounding complexity - and explains how they made us who we are today.

Notes

• Originally published as: Introducing the ancient Greeks. London: Bodley Head, 2015.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

• English

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