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It's All Greek to Me
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Charlotte Higgins |
Why is ancient Greece important? Because, quite simply, if we want to understand the modern Western world, we need to look back to the Greeks. Consider the way we think about ethics, about the nature… |
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War, peace, and alliance in Demosthenes' Athens
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Hunt, Peter |
"Every Athenian alliance, every declaration of war, and every peace treaty was instituted by a decision of the assembly, where citizens voted after listening to speeches that presented varied and oft… |
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Travelling Heroes
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Robin Lane Fox |
This remarkable and daringly original book proposes a new way of thinking about the Greeks and their myths in the age of the great Homeric hymns. It combines a lifetime's familiarity with Greek liter… |
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