Introducing the ancient Greeks :from Bronze Age seafarers to navigators of the Western mind
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New York
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W.W. Norton & Company
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xxviii, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes bibliographical references )pages 279-287( and index
NOTES PERTAINING TO TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
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Edith Hall
NOTES PERTAINING TO EDITION AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC HISTORY
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First edition
CONTENTS NOTE
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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