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Ancient Greece: An Enthralling Overview of Greek History, Starting from the Archaic Period through the Classical Age to the Hellenistic Civilization
Do you want to explore the energizing and stunning story of Ancient Greece? This history book will unpack the brilliant people, the astonishing wars, and the enchanting legacy of the ancient Greeks, from the Archaic era through to the Hellenistic period.Exploring ancient Greece’s history is spectacularly inspiring. The Greeks gave us our foundational concepts of geometry, our first astronomical models, the beginnings of modern medicine, and our understanding of democracy. Greek sculptures, paintings, and mosaics captured the human form realistically and movingly – like nothing ever seen before. The ancient Greeks were a powerhouse of all things new!This book unlocks the door to an ancient past reaching through time to touch all parts of our lives. We will follow the Greeks as they developed democracy and employed innovative tactics in epic wars. We will learn how Alexander the Great conquered a mammoth swathe of the known world. We will discern what Greek philosophers taught about life and how to live it.This thoroughly researched and compelling narrative vividly presents an extraordinary insight into ancient Greece.A glimpse of the questions this book will uncover ancient Greek scientist first proposed that a spherical earth rotated around the sun?Why was Socrates forced to drink hemlock poison?What island was destroyed by one of the greatest volcanic eruptions in human history?Did the ancient Greeks believe a great flood destroyed humankind?When did the Olympic Games begin, and did the athletes really compete in the nude?What battle was won when an entire city got diarrhea?How did Anaximander predict an earthquake and get the Spartans to evacuate?What happened when the Oracle at Delphi breathed in the fumes from the crevasse?Why did the Bacchiadeae family send assassins to kill Labda’s baby?What made Draco’s laws draconian?Were tyrants always evil, power-hungry rulers forcing their will on oppressed citizens?What brilliant tactics made Sparta a military super-power?Who killed his father and married his mother without realizing who they were?Why did Greece lose 400 years of recorded history?Which disastrous wars led to the term “pyrrhic victory?”Did Alexander the Great really name a city after his horse?How did Xerxes’ Persian engineers bridge the Hellespont?What catastrophic plague hit Athens in the middle of the Peloponnesian War against Sparta?And much, much more!Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button to learn the stories of incredible Ancient Greece!
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242 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 28, 2021
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January 13, 2023
Where do I start? This history of ancient Greece is brilliant in so many ways. Several things I especially loved:
• Aesthetics – exquisite photographs of Greek ceramics, sculptures, and architecture coupled with graceful and compelling prose
• Exceptionally researched – even though it’s an overview, the book presents in-depth, scholarly insight written in a clear, easily understood, yet captivating narrative that kept me turning pages.
• A treasure-trove of information! Intriguing details like how one Greek figured out that a spherical earth rotated around the sun, how one of the greatest volcanic explosions in human history destroyed a key Greek civilization, how a Greek predicted an earthquake – and successfully evacuated Sparta, why Socrates' belief in a moral God offended the Greeks so much they made him drink hemlock and die – I could go on and on. Every page is full of bizarre and fascinating history.
• Aesthetics – exquisite photographs of Greek ceramics, sculptures, and architecture coupled with graceful and compelling prose
• Exceptionally researched – even though it’s an overview, the book presents in-depth, scholarly insight written in a clear, easily understood, yet captivating narrative that kept me turning pages.
• A treasure-trove of information! Intriguing details like how one Greek figured out that a spherical earth rotated around the sun, how one of the greatest volcanic explosions in human history destroyed a key Greek civilization, how a Greek predicted an earthquake – and successfully evacuated Sparta, why Socrates' belief in a moral God offended the Greeks so much they made him drink hemlock and die – I could go on and on. Every page is full of bizarre and fascinating history.
December 31, 2021
Best book on Ancient Greek history
Very well written and interesting history of Ancient Greece and their city states and expansion thru the ages. Also their cultural contributions that still exist
Very well written and interesting history of Ancient Greece and their city states and expansion thru the ages. Also their cultural contributions that still exist
January 16, 2024
Too big
The scope of this history was too big for the short booklet. A few interesting anecdotes doesn't adequately cover the time frame. Years, wars, dynastic changes, were too often compressed into short sentences, followed by another short sentence.
The scope of this history was too big for the short booklet. A few interesting anecdotes doesn't adequately cover the time frame. Years, wars, dynastic changes, were too often compressed into short sentences, followed by another short sentence.
March 15, 2023
it's funny and gay 5/5
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