9780831740924 - Greece Observed by Barret, Andre (4 results)
- Hardcover
Seller: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.Library House Internet Sales
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Good
US$ 3.00
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The landscape and culture of Athens, Delphi and the Peloponnesus, Aegina, Meteora, Rhodes, and Crete are depicted in photographs and text Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.
- Hardcover
Seller: Bulrushed Books, Moscow, ID, U.S.A.Bulrushed Books
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used - Fair
US$ 9.00
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Condition: Acceptable. SHIPS FAST. RESCUED + REPAIRED. Features a small coffee mishap, plus a reinforced binding, secured cover, and light annotations or highlighting-a durable, fully readable working copy brought back to life at a great value by our Book Sustainability Project. No access codes or CDs.
- Hardcover
Seller: June Samaras, STREETSVILLE, ON, CanadaJune Samaras
Contact seller3-star sellerCondition: Used - As new
US$ 15.00
US$ 24.00 shippingShips from Canada to U.S.A.Quantity: 2 available
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Reprint. Large format pictorial book illustrating the glories of Greece. 169p.
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Seller: West Cove UK, Wellington, United KingdomWest Cove UK
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Good
US$ 28.91
US$ 35.10 shippingShips from United Kingdom to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. Dustcover missing. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> Not that Greece was the beginning of everything. There were brilliant and advanced societies in Mesopotamia and Eg…ypt more than 1,000 years before the awakening of Greece. In Crete, under the influence of these older cultures, a civilization blossomed the charm and atility of which the Greeks were never to equal. It was in Asia Minor that civilization flourished. Today, archaeologists are able to establish that in the Neolithic period certain of the great cities of Anatolia enjoyed a harmonious and peaceable existence. Even the Persians were not as bar- barous as their enemies liked to pretend; it seems that they were conscientious and just administrators, who were often less cruel in their ways than the Greeks. It must not be forgotten that the Greeks were Indo-European conquerors who had come from the north the Achaeans around the eighteenth century BC, the Dorians around the thirteenth century and that it took several centuries of contact with the inhabitants of the Aegean to mellow and.
