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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Will Durant |
OCLC Number: | 16110686 |
Description: | xviii, 754 pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps (on lining papers) ; 26 cm. |
Contents: | Aegean prelude: 3500-1000 BC: Chronological table -- Crete -- Before Agamemnon -- Heroic age -- Rise of Greece: 1000-480 BC: Chronological table -- -Sparta -- Athens -- Great migration -- Greeks in the West -- Gods of Greece -- Common culture of early Greece -- Struggle for freedom -- Golden age: 480-399 BC: Chronological table -- Pericles and the democratic experiment -- Work and wealth in Athens -- Morals and manners of the Athenians -- Art of Periclean Greece -- Advancement of learning -- Conflict of philosophy and religion -- Literature of the golden age -- Suicide of Greece -- Decline and fall of Greek freedom: 399-322 BC: Chronological table -- Philip -- Letters and arts in the fourth century -- Zenith of philosophy -- Alexander -- Hellenistic Dispersion: 322-146 BC: Chronological table -- Greece and Macedon -- Hellenism and the Orient -- Egypt and the West -- Books -- Art of the dispersion -- Climax of Greek science -- Surrender of philosophy -- Coming of Rome -- Epilogue: Our Greek heritage -- Glossary of foreign words -- Index. |
Responsibility: | by Will Durant. |
Abstract:
"A history of Greek government, industry, manners, morals, religion, philosophy, science, literature and art from the earliest times to the Roman conquest"--Jacket subtitle.
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