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Description edit
From the epic poems of Homer to the glittering art and architecture of Greece's Golden Age, to the influential Roman systems of law and leadership, the classical Greek world established the foundations of our culture as well as many of its most enduring achievements. Now, in this vivid volume,... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Alexander: Add a description of this character.
- Zeus
- Aristotle
- Troy
- Hector
- Callimachus
- Chrysippus
- Heraclitus
- Agamemnon
- Pericles
- Demeter
- Anaximander
- Xerxes
- Helen
- Themistocles
- Anaxagoras
- Socrates
- Xenophanes
- Cleisthenes
- Darius
- Menander
- Alcaeus
- Philip
- Lysander
- J. Boardman
- Virgil
- Cleon
- Delos
- Scopas
- Telemachus
- Lucretius
- Ptolemy
- Antiochus
- Artemis
- Leonidas
- Rhodes
- Jason
- Alcibiades
- Prometheus
- Cleomenes
- M. L. West
- J. Barnes
- Dionysius
- Anacreon
- Dionysus
- D. L. Page
- M. I. Finley
- Gorgias
- Anaximenes
- Priam
Setting & Locations edit
- Athens
- Classical Greece
- London
- Sparta
- Egypt
- Iliad
- Cambridge
- Attica
- Persia
- Corinth
- Alexandria
- Sophocles
- Sicily
- Thessaly
- Euripides
- Asia
- Italy
- Solon
- Thebes
- New York
- Samos
- Achilles
- Olympia
- Pergamum
- Macedon
- Ionia
- Euboea
- Boeotia
- Miletus
- Turkey
- Salamis
- Syracuse
- Piraeus
- Cyrene
- India
- Paris
- Sappho
- Mycenaean
- Crete
- Hephaestus
- Aegean
- Near East
- Republic
- Syria
- Princeton
- Babylon
- Hellenism
First Sentence edit
FOR most historians the characteristic and peculiar element in Greek political life has been the polis, the city-state, an institution of which any precise definition obscures the variety in size or shape or social and political organization.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Oxford PPE UA Amp P Political Economy. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- John Boardman (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 938
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Ancient › Greece
- Books › History › Europe › Greece
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Archaeology
- Books › History › Americas › United States
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