TY - BOOK AU - Hall,Edith TI - Introducing the ancient Greeks: from Bronze Age seafarers to navigators of the Western mind SN - 9780393351163 (paperback) AV - DF214 .H26 2015 U1 - 938 23 PY - 2015///] CY - New York PB - W. W. Norton & Company KW - Greece KW - History KW - To 146 B.C KW - 146 B.C.-323 A.D KW - Civilization N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -