Ancient Greece - An Illustrated History

Nigel Rodgers

Lorenz Books

2017

512 páginas

17h 4m

ISBN-13: 9780754833574

An authoritative account of Greek military and political history, the golden age of Athens and Pericles, the rivalry with Sparta, the Persian Wars, and the campaigns of Alexander the Great.

The Architecture of Classical and its significance, describing the temples, palaces and archaelogical sites from the Parthenon and Delphi to Mycenae and Knossos.

Retells the myths and legends from the Olympian Gods, including Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Poseidon, Hermes, Ares, Aphrodite and Dionysus.

The cultural legacy of classical sculpture and art, drama and philosophy, and the great thinkers, writers and historians such as Homer, Plato, Socrates and Aristotle, and the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

Illustrated throughout with battleplans and maps, fine-art photographs and reproductions.