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Harry Mount’s odyssey : ancient Greece in the footsteps of Odysseus

By Harry , Mount

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year
2016
ISBN
9781472904676, 1472904672, 9781472935960, 1472935969, 978-1-4729-0468-3
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2778334 bytes)
Pages
271\0
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00
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Description

Architecture, art, sculpture, economics, mathematics, science, metaphysics, comedy, tragedy, drama and epic poetry were all devised and perfected by the Greeks. Of the four classical orders of architecture, three were invented by the Greeks and the fourth, the only one the Romans could come up with, was a combination of two of the former. The powerful ghost of ancient Greece still lingers on in the popular mind as the first great civilization and one of the most influential in the creation of modern thought. It is the starting block of Western European civilization. In his new Odyssey, eminent writer Harry Mount tells the story of ancient Greece while on the trail of its greatest son, Odysseus.

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