An edition of It's all Greek to me (2010)

It's all Greek to me

from Homer to the Hippocratic Oath, how ancient Greece has shaped our world

1st U.S. ed.
It's all Greek to me
Charlotte Higgins, Charlotte H ...
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An edition of It's all Greek to me (2010)

It's all Greek to me

from Homer to the Hippocratic Oath, how ancient Greece has shaped our world

1st U.S. ed.

"An informative, smart, and very amusing narrative about how influential Greeks and Greek culture have been on the rest of the world, from art to architecture to literature to politics to love"--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher
Harper
Language
English
Pages
229

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Table of Contents

The alpha and the omega: why a life without Homer is a life half-lived
The living, the dead and the deathless: mortality in Hesiod, Homer and Sophocles
Man is a political animal: democracy and the polis
Pandora's daughters: the silent majority
Swords and sandals: war in Homer, Herodotus and Thucydides
Beyond the borders: Greeks and barbarians
The twilight of the gods: the beginnings of science, from Thales to Aristotle
The death of Socrates and the birth of philosophy: the challenge of Plato's Republic
Love and loss: desire in Homer, Sappho and Plato.

Edition Notes

Originally published: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
938
Library of Congress
DF78 .H63 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
229 p. :
Number of pages
229

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24538081M
ISBN 10
0061804002
ISBN 13
9780061804007
LCCN
2010006737
OCLC/WorldCat
419857641

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