Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind
Wonderful...a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours. —Natalie Haynes, IndependentThe ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, acclaimed classics scholar Edith Hall offers a bold synthesis of the full 2,000 years of Hellenic history to show how the ancient Greeks were the right people, at the right time, to take up the baton of human progress. Hall portrays a uniquely rebelliou…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-24412-0
- EAN: 9780393244120
- Produktnummer: 34247469
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'243 KB
- Abbildungen: 2 maps; 12 illustrations
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Edith Hall is one of Britain's foremost classicists, having held posts at the universities of Cambridge, Durham, Reading, and Oxford. She is the author and editor of more than a dozen works and now teaches at King's College London.
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