The Classical Greeks - Hardcover

Grant, Michael

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ISBN 10: 029781771X ISBN 13: 9780297817710

Publisher: WEIDENFELD NICOLSON

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A history of the Golden Age of Greek civilisation - the age of the city-states, 490 to 336 BC. Examines the political and military situation during the period, including the wars against Persia and Carthage and the accession of Alexander the Great.

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Michael Grant was formerly a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University, the first Vice-Chancellor of the Queen's University, Belfast, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Khartoum. He is Doctor of Letters at Cambridge and Honorary Doctor of Letters and Laws at Dublin and Belfast respectively. He has also been President of the Classical Association of England, the Virgil Society and the Royal Numismatic Society.

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Grant blows the dust off our time-worn images of the classical Greeks. He comments on the playwright Euripides: "His characters have become all too familiar to modern psychologists." And on Herodotus: "Viewed as a writer, not as a historian, he is nothing short of a genius." This is no ordinary chronicle. Grant avoids overemphasis on the Greek mainland (and on Athens in particular), giving us instead the cultural contributions of a medley of city-states in the Greek empire. Then too, he believes that the Greeks' major achievements "were mainly the work of less than 40 outstanding men." Some of these are readily familiar--Socrates, Aristophanes, etc.--others less so, like Archytas of Taras, who combined in one person the roles of general, political leader, mathematician, Pythagorean philosopher and student of acoustics. This wonderfully readable history falls chronologically between Grant's The Rise of the Greeks and From Alexander to Cleopatra. Illustrated.
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