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Greek History and Mythology: An Enthralling Overview of Major Events, People, Myths, Gods, and Goddesses
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History of An Enthralling Overview of Greek HistoryGreek An Enthralling Overview of Greek Myths, Gods, and Goddesses
This concise overview covers Greece’s Stone Age and Bronze Age civilizations, its archaic and classical eras, its centuries under Roman rule, and the fascinating Byzantine Empire. It travels through Greece’s period under the Turkish Ottoman Empire, then its emancipation and formation of a parliamentary democracy that continued into the 20th century.
The first part of the book will answer about Greece’s riveting How did a catastrophic volcanic eruption impact Greece’s first advanced civilization?Did the Trojan War really happen?How did the Greeks defeat the Persians’ million-man army?Which classical Greeks theorized that constantly moving atoms form all matter?How did Alexander the Great conquer the Persian Empire in less than a decade?Why was the New Testament first written in Koine Greek?Why did the Byzantine Empire persist after the Western Roman Empire fell?What Byzantine emperor’s daughter was a medical doctor and history writer?How did a secret organization help free Greece from the Ottoman Empire?Which Greek king died of a monkey bite?How did a student protest help end a military dictatorship?
Greek mythology has, without a doubt, some of the most well-known legends in the world. Like most people, the Olympians had their fair share of family drama. This part of the book pays strict attention to the genealogy of the Greek gods and the relationships they had with one another, whether they were good, bad, or incestuous.
In the second part of this book, you will The intriguing relationships between gods, men, demi-gods, and monstersThe connection between divinity and weakness. Not only men make mistakes; even seemingly perfect beings screw up regularly.The importance of love as a guiding force of nature and life in generalA practical understanding of the motivations of both men and gods behind their less-than-honorable actionsHow hard work might end in tragedyThe importance of family in Greek mythologyAnd much more!
Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button to begin learning about Greek History and Mythology!
History of An Enthralling Overview of Greek HistoryGreek An Enthralling Overview of Greek Myths, Gods, and Goddesses
This concise overview covers Greece’s Stone Age and Bronze Age civilizations, its archaic and classical eras, its centuries under Roman rule, and the fascinating Byzantine Empire. It travels through Greece’s period under the Turkish Ottoman Empire, then its emancipation and formation of a parliamentary democracy that continued into the 20th century.
The first part of the book will answer about Greece’s riveting How did a catastrophic volcanic eruption impact Greece’s first advanced civilization?Did the Trojan War really happen?How did the Greeks defeat the Persians’ million-man army?Which classical Greeks theorized that constantly moving atoms form all matter?How did Alexander the Great conquer the Persian Empire in less than a decade?Why was the New Testament first written in Koine Greek?Why did the Byzantine Empire persist after the Western Roman Empire fell?What Byzantine emperor’s daughter was a medical doctor and history writer?How did a secret organization help free Greece from the Ottoman Empire?Which Greek king died of a monkey bite?How did a student protest help end a military dictatorship?
Greek mythology has, without a doubt, some of the most well-known legends in the world. Like most people, the Olympians had their fair share of family drama. This part of the book pays strict attention to the genealogy of the Greek gods and the relationships they had with one another, whether they were good, bad, or incestuous.
In the second part of this book, you will The intriguing relationships between gods, men, demi-gods, and monstersThe connection between divinity and weakness. Not only men make mistakes; even seemingly perfect beings screw up regularly.The importance of love as a guiding force of nature and life in generalA practical understanding of the motivations of both men and gods behind their less-than-honorable actionsHow hard work might end in tragedyThe importance of family in Greek mythologyAnd much more!
Scroll up and click the “add to cart” button to begin learning about Greek History and Mythology!
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Published January 17, 2023
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February 2, 2023
In the old days, what my grandchildren call ‘back in the day’, a well educated Englishman would have a reasonable grasp of Greek History, at least as far as Athens and Sparta and perhaps Argos and the Argoli, as well as a decent understanding of Thucydides and Alexander the Great’s campaigns, either the Egyptian or the Indus Adventures but probably not both in any depth. If such a person had further enjoyed an English Grammar School Education they might well also have touched upon Greek Mythology and had a good handle at least about the major Gods and Goddesses; Zeus, Athena, Medusa, Perseus. They might even have vaguely heard about the Ottoman Empire.
It is, however, highly debatable if they would be aware of, or broadly well educated in the complex and very lengthy history of the Greek speaking people as can be achieved by reading and absorbing these three interrelated volumes. The first deals with the prehistory of the city states, their flowering and then the setting up of the widespread colonies around the shores of the Mediterranean Sea to decant the excess people and give them agricultural land and room to develop and true growing space. The second volume then deals with the period after the Roman conquest when the somewhat moribund Greeks were taken over by the peoples from the east, mostly the Turks of the new Ottoman Empire and the outfalling of these after the First World War, including the Greek monarchy. Finally in a very useful addendum, the overly complex myths which underpinned much of the pre-Christian Greek mindset, are untwined and explained in a modern but compelling manner which removes much of the encrustations of complexity that had developed when stories, mostly oral and very long in the telling, had become overladen with decades, even centuries if misunderstanding and confusion.
These three books are a very good follow up to the earlier two on the Persian and Iranian Empires and these publications, especially the first two, serve as companion pieces to those earlier books by the same author.
I was given my review copy by Booksprout for who this review was written.
It is, however, highly debatable if they would be aware of, or broadly well educated in the complex and very lengthy history of the Greek speaking people as can be achieved by reading and absorbing these three interrelated volumes. The first deals with the prehistory of the city states, their flowering and then the setting up of the widespread colonies around the shores of the Mediterranean Sea to decant the excess people and give them agricultural land and room to develop and true growing space. The second volume then deals with the period after the Roman conquest when the somewhat moribund Greeks were taken over by the peoples from the east, mostly the Turks of the new Ottoman Empire and the outfalling of these after the First World War, including the Greek monarchy. Finally in a very useful addendum, the overly complex myths which underpinned much of the pre-Christian Greek mindset, are untwined and explained in a modern but compelling manner which removes much of the encrustations of complexity that had developed when stories, mostly oral and very long in the telling, had become overladen with decades, even centuries if misunderstanding and confusion.
These three books are a very good follow up to the earlier two on the Persian and Iranian Empires and these publications, especially the first two, serve as companion pieces to those earlier books by the same author.
I was given my review copy by Booksprout for who this review was written.
February 12, 2023
The first part looks at the history of Greece from 7000BCE to the 1900s AD, broken down into four parts: the Neolithic Age to the Bronze Age Collapse, the Archaic Years to the Roman Conquest, The Roman and Byzantine Periods, and New and Modern Greek History. This is a compact history of Greece, looking into the evolution of eras and the impact the history has to today. The book is structured with rhetorical questions and narrative quotes to make the content engaging and informative.
The second part looks at Greek Mythology from From Chaos to Uranus to The Odyssey and the Return of Heroes. This part shows an overview of the Gods and Goddesses followed by their interaction and stories that are known today, such as Herakles and Hera. These myths exist to demonstrate human nature.
Overall, a great insight into the events and myths.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
The second part looks at Greek Mythology from From Chaos to Uranus to The Odyssey and the Return of Heroes. This part shows an overview of the Gods and Goddesses followed by their interaction and stories that are known today, such as Herakles and Hera. These myths exist to demonstrate human nature.
Overall, a great insight into the events and myths.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
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