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Grade 4-7. While focusing on the Classical and Hellenistic periods, this overview spans from Cycladic and Minoan times through the fall of Greece to Rome. Through standard double-page topic treatments, various aspects of ancient history and culture are presented in direct, bite-sized portions. Bright and inviting original artwork and museum reproductions appear throughout the short chapters to illustrate such topics as livelihoods, dress, education, and war making. Similar in scope and content to Anne Pearson's Ancient Greece (Knopf, 1992) and Fiona Macdonald's How Would You Survive as an Ancient Greek! (Watts, 1996), Ancient Greece aims its briefer text and large main illustrations at a slightly younger audience. Flaws are few (e.g., though the Mycenaeans are featured, Mycenae is not identified on the map). While not an essential purchase, this well-produced, well-organized title should be a useful addition in libraries where the subject is popular.?Coop Renner, Coldwell Elementary-Intermediate School, El Paso, TX
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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A collection of information organized into four sections: ``The Greek World,'' ``Living in Ancient Greece,'' ``Arts and Sciences,'' and ``Foreign Affairs.'' An entry in the Nature Company Discovery Series, the book is a visual feast, full of images and beautifully designed, and some of the clearest illustrations found in any book in a very crowded field. The text, on the other hand, suffers from oversimplification (stating as bald fact that Homer was an eighth-century b.c. poet who retold The Iliad and The Odyssey, or that the Greeks rebuilt Athens in 447 b.c.), and assumes knowledge on the part of readers they're unlikely to have. Little is covered in this volume that is not available in dozens of better books for this age group. (glossary, index) (Nonfiction. 8-13) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Grade 4-7. While focusing on the Classical and Hellenistic periods, this overview spans from Cycladic and Minoan times through the fall of Greece to Rome. Through standard double-page topic treatments, various aspects of ancient history and culture are presented in direct, bite-sized portions. Bright and inviting original artwork and museum reproductions appear throughout the short chapters to illustrate such topics as livelihoods, dress, education, and war making. Similar in scope and content to Anne Pearson's Ancient Greece (Knopf, 1992) and Fiona Macdonald's How Would You Survive as an Ancient Greek! (Watts, 1996), Ancient Greece aims its briefer text and large main illustrations at a slightly younger audience. Flaws are few (e.g., though the Mycenaeans are featured, Mycenae is not identified on the map). While not an essential purchase, this well-produced, well-organized title should be a useful addition in libraries where the subject is popular.?Coop Renner, Coldwell Elementary-Intermediate School, El Paso, TX
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
A collection of information organized into four sections: ``The Greek World,'' ``Living in Ancient Greece,'' ``Arts and Sciences,'' and ``Foreign Affairs.'' An entry in the Nature Company Discovery Series, the book is a visual feast, full of images and beautifully designed, and some of the clearest illustrations found in any book in a very crowded field. The text, on the other hand, suffers from oversimplification (stating as bald fact that Homer was an eighth-century b.c. poet who retold The Iliad and The Odyssey, or that the Greeks rebuilt Athens in 447 b.c.), and assumes knowledge on the part of readers they're unlikely to have. Little is covered in this volume that is not available in dozens of better books for this age group. (glossary, index) (Nonfiction. 8-13) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others (Opus) by Paul Cartledge in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Socrates Against Athens: Philosophy on Trial by James Colaiaco in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture: Differential Equations by S. Murnaghan on page 84, and Back Matter
- The Structured Self in Hellenistic and Roman Thought by Christopher Gill in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Socrates Against Athens: Philosophy on Trial by James Colaiaco in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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