| Description |
229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
"An informative, smart, and very amusing narrative about how influential Greeks and Greek culture have been on the rest of the world, from art to architecture to literature to politics to love"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The alpha and the omega: why a life without Homer is a life half lived -- The living, the dead and the deathless: mortality in Hesiod, Homer and Sophocles -- Man is a political animal: democracy and the polis -- Pandora's daughters: the silent majority -- Swords and sandals: war in Homer, Herodotus and Thucydides -- Beyond the borders: Greeks and barbarians -- The twilight of the gods: the beginnings of science from Thales to Aristotle -- The death of Socrates and the birth of philosophy: the challenge of Plato's Republic -- Love and loss: desire in Homer, Sappho and Plato. |
| Subject |
Civilization -- Greek influences.
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Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.
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Greece -- Intellectual life -- To 146 B.C.
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| Added Title |
It is all Greek to me |
| ISBN |
9780061804007 (hardback) |
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0061804002 (hardback) |
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