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Description edit
Charles Freeman's The Greek Achievement traces the entire course of ancient Greek history across thousands of years--from the Mycenaean and Minoan civilizations of the Bronze Age through the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. This brilliant account celebrates the incredible... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Alexander: Add a description of this character.
- Aristotle
- Socrates
- Pericles
- Zeus
- Darius
- Troy
- Cleopatra
- Philip
- Rhodes
- Dionysius
- Xerxes
- Ptolemy
- Schliemann
- Hector
- Pythagoras
- Demeter
- Seleucus
- Cyrus
- Cleisthenes
- Antigonus
- Heraclitus
- Artemis
- Thales
- Jason
- Paul
- Antiochus
- Galen
- Themistocles
- Lysander
- Olympia
- Theseus
- Orestes
- Mark Antony
- Andrew Stewart
- Praxiteles
- Agamemnon
- Alcibiades
- Asclepius
- Hippocrates
- Priam
- Persephone
- Caesar
- Epaminondas
- Octavian
- Demetrius
- Miltiades
- Marcellus
- Penelope
- Augustus
Setting & Locations edit
- Athens
- Greece
- Sparta
- Rome
- Egypt
- Asia Minor
- Corinth
- Italy
- Sicily
- Macedonia
- Alexandria
- Thebes
- Aegean
- Euripides
- Syracuse
- Solon
- Persia
- Attica
- Mycenaean
- Sophocles
- Europe
- Hellespont
- Thessaly
- Euboea
- Syria
- Salamis
- Near East
- Megara
- Iliad
- Samos
- Cyprus
- Thrace
- Ephesus
- Pergamum
- Boeotia
- Miletus
- Messenia
- Jerusalem
- Aphrodisias
- Crete
- Black Sea
- Babylon
- Marathon
- Aegina
- B.c.
- Chios
First Sentence edit
"If there is one icon (Greek eikon, an image or likeness) that stands for ancient Greece and its leading city-state of the fifth century B.C., Athens, it is the Parthenon."
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Viking Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0670885150
Page Count: 576
Publisher: Viking Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0670885150
Page Count: 576
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 938
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