The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece (Cambridge Illustrated Histories) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece is available for the first time in paperback.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 13 January 1998
- Format: Hardback 400 pages
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- Categories: European History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780521481960 ISBN 10: 0521481961
- Sales rank: 384,116
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Full description for The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece
Sumptuously illustrated in colour and packed with fascinating information, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece is now available for the first time in a revised paperback edition. Offering fresh interpretations of classical Greek culture, the book devotes as much attention to social, economic, sexual and intellectual aspects as to politics and war. Paul Cartledge and his team ask what it was like for an ordinary person to partake in 'the glory that was Greece'. They examine the influences of the environment and economy; the effect of interstate tensions; the implications of sexuality; the experience of workers, soldiers, slaves, peasants and women; and the roles of myth and religion, art and culture, and science and education. This is a cultural history which reveals the far-reaching linguistic, literary, artistic and political legacy of ancient Greece, and seeks justification for Shelley's claim that 'we are all Greeks'.
