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The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece Paperback - 1997
by Morkot, Robert
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Charting topics as diverse as Minoan civilization, the Persian Wars, the Golden Age of Athens, and the conquests of Alexander the Great, this volume in Penguin's Atlas series traces the development of a creative and restless people and assesses their impact not only on the ancient world but also on our own attitudes and environment today. Full-color maps and b&w illus. throughout.
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Details
- Title The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece
- Author Morkot, Robert
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition New
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, London
- Date 1997-01-01
- Features Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ00NATS_ns
- ISBN 9780140513356 / 0140513353
- Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 9.66 x 7.2 x 0.46 in (24.54 x 18.29 x 1.17 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Greece
- Library of Congress subjects Greece - History - To 146 B.C, Greece - History - To 146 B.C - Maps
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97675026
- Dewey Decimal Code 912.495
Summary
Charting topics as diverse as Minoan civilization, the Persian Wars, the Golden Age of Athens, and the conquests of Alexander the Great, the atlas traces the development of this creative and restless people and assesses their impact not only on the ancient world but also on our own attitudes and environment today.
First line
The history of Greece in the Classical and Hellenistic periods is extremely well documented, through the historical writings of Herodotos, Thucydides, Xenophon and others and in the many surviving fragments of other, now lost, works epitomized by the encyclopaedists of the Hellenistic and Roman periods, such as Diodoros, Strabo and Pliny.
From the rear cover
The cradle of western civilization, Ancient Greece was a land of contradictions and conflict. Intensely quarrelsome and competitive, the Greek city-states consistently proved unwilling and unable to unite. Yet, in spite of or even because of this internal discord, no ancient civilization proved so dynamic or productive. The Greeks not only colonized the Mediterranean and Black Sea areas but set standards of figurative art which endured for nearly 2500 years. Charting topics as diverse as Minoan civilization, The Persian Wars, the Athenian Golden Age and the conquests of Alexander the Great, The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece traces the development of this creative and restless people and assesses their impact not only on the ancient world but also on our own attitudes and environment.
