The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece

Sumptuously illustrated in colour and packed with fascinating information TheCambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece is now available for the firsttime ... » 

Sumptuously illustrated in colour and packed with fascinating information TheCambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece is now available for the firsttime in a revised paperback edition. Offering fresh interpretations ofclassical Greek culture the book devotes as much attention to socialeconomic sexual and intellectual aspects as to politics and war. PaulCartledge and his team ask what it was like for an ordinary person to partakein the glory that was Greece. They examine the influences of the environmentand economy the effect of interstate tensions the implications of sexualitythe experience of workers soldiers slaves peasants and women and the rolesof myth and religion art and culture and science and education. This is acultural history which reveals the farreaching linguistic literary artisticand political legacy of ancient Greece and seeks justification for Shelleysclaim that we are all Greeks. «