Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind

by Edith Hall

Book Overview

The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, acclaimed classics scholar Edith Hall offers a bold synthesis of the full 2,000 years of Hellenic history to show how the ancient Greeks were the right people, at the right time, to take...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393351165
• ISBN13: 9780393351163
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"