A History of Greece to 322 B.C.
Title | A History of Greece to 322 B.C. PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond |
Publisher | Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | 691 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780198730958 |
Traces the history of ancient Greece from political, social, military, and economic perspectives and discusses the development of the Greek culture
A History of Greece to 322 B.C.
Title | A History of Greece to 322 B.C. PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 691 |
Release | 1991 |
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“A” History of Greece to 322 B.C
Title | “A” History of Greece to 322 B.C PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas G. L. Hammond |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1987 |
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History of Ancient Greece
Title | History of Ancient Greece PDF eBook |
Author | Nathaniel Harris |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 194 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Art, Greek |
ISBN | 9780760756386 |
Take a step back in time to understand what it was like to muse with the philosophers at the Acropolis, to see Sophocles' plays at the Dionysiac festivals, to adhere to a religion of mischievous gods and heroic legends, or simply to live at the time and place where western civilization was born.
Ancient Greek Warship
Title | Ancient Greek Warship PDF eBook |
Author | Nic Fields |
Publisher | Osprey Publishing |
Total Pages | 48 |
Release | 2007-03-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781846030741 |
Formidable and sophisticated, triremes were the deadliest battleship of the ancient world, and at the height of their success, the Athenians were the dominant exponents of their devastating power. Primarily longships designed to fight under oar power, the trireme was built for lightness and strength; ship-timber was mostly softwoods such as poplar, pine and fir, while the oars and mast were made out of fir. Their main weapon was a bronze-plated ram situated at the prow. From the combined Greek naval victory at Salamis (480 BC), through the Peloponnesian War, and up until the terrible defeat by the Macedonians at Amorgos, the Athenian trireme was an object of dread to its enemies. This book offers a complete analysis and insight into the most potent battleship of its time; the weapon by which Athens achieved, maintained, and ultimately lost its power and prosperity.
Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind
Title | Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Edith Hall |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2014-06-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0393244121 |
"Wonderful…a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours." —Natalie Haynes, Independent The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, acclaimed classics scholar Edith Hall offers a bold synthesis of the full 2,000 years of Hellenic history to show how the ancient Greeks were the right people, at the right time, to take up the baton of human progress. Hall portrays a uniquely rebellious, inquisitive, individualistic people whose ideas and creations continue to enthrall thinkers centuries after the Greek world was conquered by Rome. These are the Greeks as you’ve never seen them before.
What Life was Like at the Dawn of Democracy
Title | What Life was Like at the Dawn of Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Time-Life Books |
Publisher | Time Life Medical |
Total Pages | 152 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
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Portrays Athens at the height of the Golden Age. Covrs the everyday lives of the citizens, women, foriegners and slaves. Examines training of the mind and the body, development of democracy, influence of various heroes and the gods of Mt. Olympus. Details Greek accomplishments in art, drama, sports, medicine, and philosophy.