Full name: The Greek Achievement: The Foundation of the Western World

Author: Charles Freeman Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780140293234 014029323X

Charles Freeman's The Greek Achievement traces the entire course of ancient Greek history across thousands of years--from the Mycenaean and Minoan civilizations of the Bronze Age through the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. This brilliant account celebrates the incredible range of Greek achievement: the architectural marvels of the Athenian Acropolis; the birth of drama and the timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles; Homer's epics; the philosophical revolutions of Plato and Aristotle; and the conquests of Alexander the Great. Lavishly illustrated with photographs and maps, The Greek Achievement paints a sweeping panorama of the ancient Greeks' world and provides a rich, contemporary overview of their enduring contribution to world civilization. Similar books: The Rise Of The Greeks by Michael Grant The Classical Greeks by Michael Grant The Greek Experience by Maurice Bowra The Ancient Greeks by M. I. Finley Thermopylae by Paul Cartledge Ancient Greece by Sarah B. Pomeroy The Hellenistic world by F. W. Walbank The Greeks by H. D. F. Kitto The Echo of Greece by Edith Hamilton The Spartans by Paul Cartledge Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea by Thomas Cahill Early Greece by Oswyn Murray The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan Travelling Heroes by Robin Lane Fox The Story of the Greeks by H. A. Guerber Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer