Introducing the ancient Greeks : from Bronze Age seafarers to navigators of the Western mind

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Label

Introducing the ancient Greeks : from Bronze Age seafarers to navigators of the Western mind

Title remainder

from Bronze Age seafarers to navigators of the Western mind

Statement of responsibility

Edith Hall

Creator

• trueHall, Edith
• Hall, Edith, 1959-

Author

• Hall, Edith, 1959-

Subject

• trueHistory writing -- Ancient -- Greece
• trueSailors
• trueCivilization, Ancient
• trueAncient Greece
• Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C
• trueBronze and Iron Ages (3500-27 BCE) -- -3500 -- -27
• trueGreek civilization
• trueGreece -- History -- To 146 B.C
• Greece -- History -- 146 B.C.-323 A.D

Genre

• trueHistory writing

Language

eng

Summary

The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote down the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories of Leonidas<U+2019>s three hundred Spartans and Alexander the Great. But understanding these uniquely influential people has been hampered by their diffusion across the entire Mediterranean. Most ancient Greeks did not live in what is now Greece but in settlements scattered across Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Libya, France, Italy, Bulgaria, Russia, and Ukraine. They never formed a single unified social or political entity. Acclaimed classics scholar Edith Hall<U+2019>s Introducing the Ancient Greeks is the first book to offer a synthesis of the entire ancient Greek experience, from the rise of the Mycenaean kingdoms of the sixteenth century BC to the final victory of Christianity over paganism in AD 391

Storyline

• trueSweeping

Writing style

• trueAccessible

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

938

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

DF214

LC item number

.H26 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult