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Title:
Introducing the ancient Greeks : from Bronze Age seafarers to navigators of the Western mind / Edith Hall.
Author:
Hall, Edith, 1959- author.
Publication Information:
New York, NY ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.

©2014
Call Number:
DF214 .H26 2015
Abstract:
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.
ISBN:
9780393351163
Physical Description:
xxviii, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
General Note:
First published as a Norton paperback 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.
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