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“The best introduction I have ever read to Ancient Greece. The author’s liveliness of mind and style has enabled him to make a mass of information appetizing and digestible” –Ray Mortimer in the Sunday Times

The Greeks were extraordinary not least because they evolved a totally new conception of what human life was for. Justifying and elaborating on that claim, H.D.F. Kitto explores the life, culture and history of classical Greece, bringing to his subject the passion, wit and insight that have made this brief introduction a world-famous classic.

“Professor Kitto is a model historian – lively, accurate, and fully acquainted with the latest developments in the subject . . . never vague . . . often witty and always full of vigour.”—The Times Educational Supplement

Table of Contents
1 INTRODUCTION
2 THE FORMATION OF THE GREEK PEOPLE
3 THE COUNTRY
4 HOMER
5 THE POLIS
6 CLASSICAL GREECE: THE EARLY PERIOD
7 CLASSICAL GREECE: THE FIFTH CENTURY
8 THE GREEKS AT WAR
9 THE DECLINE OF THE POLIS
10 THE GREEK MIND
11 MYTH AND RELIGION
12 LIFE AND CHARACTER

INDEX

The Greeks

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 28 February 1991
      ISBN-13 9780140135213
      978-0140135213
      ISBN-10 0140135219
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      History European history European history: medieval period, middle ages

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      “The best introduction I have ever read to Ancient Greece. The author’s liveliness of mind and style has enabled him to make a mass of information appetizing and digestible” –Ray Mortimer in the Sunday Times

      The Greeks were extraordinary not least because they evolved a totally new conception of what human life was for. Justifying and elaborating on that claim, H.D.F. Kitto explores the life, culture and history of classical Greece, bringing to his subject the passion, wit and insight that have made this brief introduction a world-famous classic.

      “Professor Kitto is a model historian – lively, accurate, and fully acquainted with the latest developments in the subject . . . never vague . . . often witty and always full of vigour.”—The Times Educational Supplement

      Table of Contents
      1 INTRODUCTION
      2 THE FORMATION OF THE GREEK PEOPLE
      3 THE COUNTRY
      4 HOMER
      5 THE POLIS
      6 CLASSICAL GREECE: THE EARLY PERIOD
      7 CLASSICAL GREECE: THE FIFTH CENTURY
      8 THE GREEKS AT WAR
      9 THE DECLINE OF THE POLIS
      10 THE GREEK MIND
      11 MYTH AND RELIGION
      12 LIFE AND CHARACTER

      INDEX

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