The Penguin History of Greece offers a one-volume history of Hellas, and is principally written for the reader who is not a student or expert in classical literature. Readable, erudite, enthusiastic and balanced, it sweeps the reader along from the days of Mycenae to the splendors of Athens and to the conquests of Alexander and the last dark ages, ably pin-pointing the culture, society and politics of an astonishing people.
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THE earliest surprise in Greek prehistory - for the date of the (Neanderthal?) Petralona skull is now considered controversial - is of mesolithic, pre-agricultural date. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Asia Minor, Black Sea, Corinthian Gulf, Trojan War, Alexander the Great, People's Council, Persian War, Aristeides the Just, Good Old Days, Greeks of Asia, Hellenic League, Achaian League, Antigonos One-Eye, British Museum, Dying God, Greek Sicily, King Priam, Marcus Aurelius, New Comedy, Plato's Republic, Ras Shamra New!
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THE earliest surprise in Greek prehistory - for the date of the (Neanderthal?) Petralona skull is now considered controversial - is of mesolithic, pre-agricultural date. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Asia Minor, Black Sea, Corinthian Gulf, Trojan War, Alexander the Great, People's Council, Persian War, Aristeides the Just, Good Old Days, Greeks of Asia, Hellenic League, Achaian League, Antigonos One-Eye, British Museum, Dying God, Greek Sicily, King Priam, Marcus Aurelius, New Comedy, Plato's Republic, Ras Shamra New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Living Past of Greece (Icon Editions) by Andrew Robert Burn on 4 pages
- The Lyric Age of Greece. by Andrew Robert. Burn in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Works and Days (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints) by Hesiod on page 56, page 57, and page 58
- World of Hesiod by Andrew Robert Burn in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Persia and the Greeks: The Defence of the West, c.546-478 B.C. by A.R. Burn in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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- Greece (Insight Guide Greece) by Insight Guides in Back Matter
- Ancient Greeks: Creating the Classical Tradition (Oxford Profiles) by Rosalie F. Baker in Back Matter
- Pagans and the Law by Dana D. Eilers in Back Matter
- Ancient Iraq: Third Edition (Penguin History) by Georges Roux in Back Matter
- The Northern Crusades: Second Edition by Eric Christiansen in Back Matter
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