Customer Reviews

Ancient Greece

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The best part of this book is the photographs. They are plentiful, taking up as much room as the print, and useful, too. They help you to see which of the styles of architecture is which, the layout of a Greek home, and many other things that would be hard to visualize if told only in words. This is a convenient book to have at home -as are the other eyewitness books; a quick reference, and also a plain fun read. Though it is supposed to be for children aged 9 to 12, I think many teens would enjoy this book.

I recomend this book to any family. It makes learning fun and basic as well as interesting. my kids love this book especially being transported back in time to ancient Greece

DK Publishing did a very quick job in creating the CD. On the index page, some of the links are missing. The pictures are there, but the user has to go to the folder on the CD to see them. As for the pictures, they cannot be resized to a larger size without distortion. For example, the map images are so small there is no possible way that a student could label it, but the caption below the image specifically talks about labeling the map. Only about 1/10th of the pictures from the book are included on the CD. The maximum pictures per two page layout is 5 images. The "At Home" page only has 1 image, the farm house. There are also some images included in the CD that are not in the book, but the caption that goes with the CD picture are not of the same caliber as the text descriptions that go with the pictures on the hard pages. Don't pay extra for the CD version of this book. It is not worth the money.

I had the pleasure to vividly experience the feeling of being next to bigger than life mythical creatures when I visited the mythical creatures exhibition in the weekend at the martime museum. It was an extraordinary experience. Mythical creatures have for ever shaped our imaginations in our beliefs of our lives and Greece is in the fore front of all these fantastic legends of gods, goddesses, heroes warriors monsters good and bad. DK eyewitness Ancient Greece is a mini museum between the covers. The coverage includes history, religion, people and customs, occupations, recreation, warfare and of course those great and powerful Gods and Goddess mythical creatures that were part bird part horse part lion whatever was at the time believable. The illustrations as per usual are all a feast for the eyes and give you a visual understanding of daily art, architecture artefacts and the people. There may be a myriad of books out there that are written on Ancient Greece this book however is so visual that you feel as though like the mythical creatures themselves of Ancient Greece you can step inside and, can experience been amongst them all that time which in the end of course is naturally a vividly extraordinary experience to be a part of emotionally and educationally in been a fantasy world of mythology.

This volume is an excellent supplement to any history class. I mostly wanted it for the photographs, but it is full of valuable information. The book was just what we needed to give the students a good visual of ancient Greece. I know we will use it time and time again over the next several years. This book is a good one to have on your shelf!

Over the past years of travel with my "trusty" Eyewitness Travel Books I have had the most incredible experiences. Changed my life & the biggest reason is the gorgeous photos. When you arrive at a destination you know where to go & what to look for-so exciting. Now, I am a big believer of not taking away the mystery of tomorrow because you will loose your magic of today but these are a must! So funny, whoever is traveling with me is always borrowing-even Rick Steves.I got so tickled at him-getting ideas??

My next adventure is to Greece & on to the magical isles along the coastline -I can barely wait. Bedtime reading to dream of.

I ordered this book because I have been very happy with DK's travel books. I guess I should have read more carefully: This is a children's book, not a book for travelers. Yes, I know the detailed description says so and I should have read it. But there are probably others who would buy this book based on DK's travel books and without looking at the details. Hence this comment!