Harry Mount's Odyssey: Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus

by Harry Mount

Book Overview

Architecture, art, sculpture, economics, mathematics, science, metaphysics, comedy, tragedy, drama and epic poetry were all devised and perfected by the Greeks. Of the four classical orders of architecture, three were invented by the Greeks and the fourth, the only one the Romans could come up with, was a combination of two of the former.The powerful ghost of ancient Greece still lingers on in the popular mind as the first great civilization and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472904672
• ISBN13: 9781472904676
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.5"