Introducing the ancient Greeks : from Bronze Age seafarers to navigators of the Western mind / Edith Hall.

By: Hall, Edith, 1959- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2015]Copyright date: ©2014Description: xxviii, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cmContent type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393351163 (paperback)Subject(s): Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C | Greece -- History -- 146 B.C.-323 A.D | Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.CDDC classification: 938 LOC classification: DF214 | .H26 2015
Contents:
Seafaring Mycenaeans -- The creation of Greece -- Frogs and dolphins round the pond -- Inquiring Ionians -- The open society of Athens -- Spartan inscrutability -- Rivalrous Macedonians -- God-kings and libraries -- Greek minds and Roman power -- Pagan Greeks and Christians.
Summary: Examines the ancient Greeks, from the rise of the Mycenaean kingdoms to the victory of Christianity over paganism, focusing on the qualities that characterized the widely diffused Mediterranean people over the long course of their history.
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First published as a Norton paperback 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-287) and index.

Seafaring Mycenaeans -- The creation of Greece -- Frogs and dolphins round the pond -- Inquiring Ionians -- The open society of Athens -- Spartan inscrutability -- Rivalrous Macedonians -- God-kings and libraries -- Greek minds and Roman power -- Pagan Greeks and Christians.

Examines the ancient Greeks, from the rise of the Mycenaean kingdoms to the victory of Christianity over paganism, focusing on the qualities that characterized the widely diffused Mediterranean people over the long course of their history.

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