Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind

by Edith Hall

Book Overview

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'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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393239985
• ISBN13: 9780393239980
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"