{"product_id":"the-ancient-greeks-9780099583646","title":"The Ancient Greeks","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories of Leonidas's three hundred Spartans and Alexander the Great. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut who \u003ci\u003ewere\u003c\/i\u003e the ancient Greeks? And what was it that enabled them to achieve so much?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Here, Edith Hall gives us a revelatory way of viewing this geographically scattered people, visiting different communities at various key moments during twenty centuries of ancient history. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIdentifying ten unique traits central to the widespread ancient Greeks, Hall unveils a civilization of incomparable richness and a people of astounding complexity  and explains how they made us who we are today. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA thoroughly readable and illuminating account of this fascinating people This excellent book makes us admire and like the ancient Greeks equally'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA worthy and lively introducti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHall examines in scholarly but very readable detail. -- Simon Shaw * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eHall’s superb history achieves her aim with a happy marrying of literature and archaeology. -- Lesley McDowell * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eIf you’re interested in their history then it is worth reading, and I think even those with some knowledge of the Greeks would learn something from this book. -- Judith Griffith * Nudge *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTerrifically good\u003c\/b\u003e -- Natalie Haynes * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e[Hall] provides a \u003cb\u003ethoroughly readable\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eilluminating\u003c\/b\u003e account of this fascinating people… This \u003cb\u003eexcellent\u003c\/b\u003e book makes us admire and like the ancient Greeks equally -- John Davie * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003eworthy and lively\u003c\/b\u003e introduction to one of the two groups of ancient peoples who really formed the western world -- Christopher Hart * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eThis new tome serves as a \u003cb\u003efantastic\u003c\/b\u003e general introduction * Big Issue *\u003cbr\u003eEdith Hall has a \u003cb\u003ebrilliant\u003c\/b\u003e ability to intellectually analyse the Greeks… because of deep, searching curiosity, and her sense of how this culture reflects upon our moment now. Her writing is \u003cb\u003eso clear\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eaccessible\u003c\/b\u003e… full of complex reflections and revelations -- Ian Rickson\u003cbr\u003eWide-ranging and \u003cb\u003eendlessly fascinating\u003c\/b\u003e… It is a fitting tribute to history that ought to be preserved… because it would, at the very least, enrich our conversation and range of comparison with events today -- Daisy Dunn * Standpoint *\u003cbr\u003eThis \u003cb\u003ecrisp\u003c\/b\u003e little book is also worth reading for Hall’s \u003cb\u003eelegant\u003c\/b\u003e prose -- Suzi Feay * Financial Times *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732314665303,"sku":"9780099583646","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099583646.jpg?v=1719996380","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-ancient-greeks-9780099583646","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}