The Ancient Greeks: An Introduction

by Stephanie Lynn Budin

Book Overview

This accessible introduction surveys the land and peoples who gave us the Labyrinth, the Acropolis, the Iliad and Odyssey, Herodotus and Thucydides, Sappho and Sophocles, Aphrodite and Aristotle, and so much more. Using the full range of resources of art history, archaeology, and philology, this book details the familiar--mythic heroes and heroines, famous philosophers and poets, as well as classical art and architecture--and introduces the less-well-known...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195379845
• ISBN13: 9780195379846
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.7" x 9.6"