The Greeks An Introduction to Their Culture, 3rd edition

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The Greeks The Greekshas provided a concise yet wide-ranging introduction to the culture of ancient Greece. In this new and expa ...

Peoples of the Ancient World This series stands as the first port of call for anyone who wants to know more about the historical ...

The Greeks: An Introduction to Their Culture Third edition Robin Sowerby ...

First published 1995. Second edition published 2009. This third edition published 2015 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, ...

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1 EARLY GREECE: HOMER AND HESIOD Preface xi Bronze Age Greece Minoan civilization Mycenaean civilization The Dark Age The Homer ...

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PREFACE What makes the Homeric poems a formative influence in western culture? What is distinctive about Greek drama? What are t ...

authoritative accounts of recent scholarship on all aspects of the material covered in this book can be found in the latest edit ...

1 EARLY GREECE: HOMER AND HESIOD Bronze Age Greece The island of Crete was one of the earliest centres of civilization in the Me ...

substantial remains of a great palace; his further investigations over a period of a quarter of a century discovered more and ea ...

by Europa whom he carried off by taking the form of a bull. Minos had brothers and tosettle the question as to who was to be rul ...

4 THE GREEKS FIGURE 3 Fresco at Cnossus Source:The Minoan Photo © akg-images/Album/Prisma http://www.ebook3000.com ...

original condition it must have been a very vibrant image testifying to a highly developed appreciation of beauty. In Cretan pot ...

any likely date of the Trojan War. Nevertheless, the Homeric names given by Schliemann to his finds are still used today. As in ...

entrance and an interior room. The Lion Gate of Mycenae (so called from the relief over its lintel) that forms the entrance to t ...