The Age of Pericles (World History Series) [Illustrated] [Hardcover]

Don Nardo (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Lucent Books (December 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560063033
• ISBN-13: 978-1560063032
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,205,428 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Don Nardo is a historian and award-winning writer who specializes in the ancient world, especially the civilizations of Greece and Rome. He began as a actor and worked with the National Shakespeare Company before turning to writing screenplays and teleplays and, soon afterward, devoting much of his time to historical research and writing. In the past two decades, he has published nearly two hundred volumes on diverse historical topics. And having earned numerous favorable reviews, he is widely recognized as the country's leading writer of historical works for young adults. He is also versed in various other subjects and as a result is frequently asked by publishers to write books on a number of scientific and literary topics.

Mr. Nardo also composes and arranges orchestral music, having started composing in his early teens. Over the years he has turned out more than eighty musical works, including 2 symphonies, 4 string quartets, several concertos, a film score, incidental music for stage productions, and several commissions, the most recent a double concerto for violin and Portuguese guitar written for two noted musicians. He is also the resident composer and arranger for the Amadis Orchestra, based in Connecticut. For more information, see his official web site at www.nardopublishing.com and his more extensive biography at Wikipedia.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Work, August 23, 2001

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This review is from: The Age of Pericles (World History Series) (Hardcover)

A very well written synopsis of the era of Athenian supremacy in fifth-century B.C. Greece. Most books I have seen for young people (as well as quite a few for adults) deal mainly with the cultural aspects of the age (e.g. the Parthenon, Athenian playwrights, etc.), whereas this volume also deals in surprising detail and insight with the politcal and military events of the period, including the ongoing rivalry between Athens and Sparta, and carefully traces the roots as well as the consequences of that rivalry. Nardo must be commended for a successful attempt to educate young readers about a pivotal period in Western history, one in which arrogance, an imperialistic mentality, and miscalculation helped to destroy the world's first democracy. Adults, excluding scholars of of course, will benefit from the book, too.