Greece and Rome: The Birth of Western Civilization

240pp., Pictorial colour illustrated dustjacket with light rubbing and creasing to top edge- covered in removable protective clear plastic, maroon cloth boards with gilt text to spine & gilt logo to front board, illust. endpapers, intro. by Michael Grant, col. & b/w plts. & text ills., full page col. & b/w illust., diags., maps- dbl. page, plans, bibliog., index. Our guides are the eight distinguished authorities who write, in the light of modern research, on the first great literatures the world has known, the astonishing achievement of Greek art, the magnificent temples and palaces of a rich empire, the developing thought of classical genius- and the turbulent history of men and women whose world we can enter and understand. Size: Large Quarto.