Аннотация к книге: The Ancient Greeks. Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern World

They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories of Leonidas's three hundred Spartans and Alexander the Great.
But who were the ancient Greeks? And what was it that enabled them to achieve so much?
Here, Edith Hall gives us a revelatory way of viewing this geographically scattered people, visiting different communities at various key moments during twenty centuries of ancient history.
Identifying ten unique traits central to the widespread ancient Greeks, Hall unveils a civilization of incomparable richness and a people of astounding complexity - and explains how they made us who we are today.

Автор/составитель	Hall Edith
Год выпуска	2016
ISBN	9780099583646
Производитель	Vintage books
Количество томов	1
Количество страниц	308
Переплет	Мягкая обложка
Размеры	198x130x22 мм
Тип бумаги	газетная (30-52 г/м2)
Вес	238
Язык	английский