{"product_id":"the-ancient-greeks-ten-ways-they-shaped-the-modern-world","title":"The Ancient Greeks: Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hall, Edith\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e VINTAGE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColor:\u003c\/b\u003e White\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 10-03-2016\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780099583646\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e They 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\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBut who were the ancient Greeks? And what was it that enabled them to achieve so much?\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHere, 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\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIdentifying 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\n\u003cbr\u003e\n‘A thoroughly readable and illuminating account of this fascinating people… This excellent book makes us admire and like the ancient Greeks equally’\u003cbr\u003e\nIndependent\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n‘A worthy and lively introduction to one of the two groups of ancient peoples who really formed the western world’\u003cbr\u003e\nSunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n‘Throughout, Hall exemplifies her subjects’ spirit of inquiry, their originality and their open-mindedness’\u003cbr\u003e\nDaily Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n‘A book that is both erudite and splendidly entertaining’\u003cbr\u003e\nFinancial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780099583646\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.7 x 5.0 x 1.0 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VINTAGE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66561498448176,"sku":"Trans_9780099583646","price":700.93,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/91P1KuK1nfL.jpg?v=1776442601","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/bn\/products\/the-ancient-greeks-ten-ways-they-shaped-the-modern-world","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}