History of ancient Greece / Nathaniel Harris

Includes index.

Introduction -- Chapter 1. Origins -- Chapter 2. The Great Age of the City-State -- Chapter 3. Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic World -- Chapter 4. The Greek Experience -- Chapter 5. Myth and Religion -- Chapter 6. Art and Architecture -- Chapter 7. Words and Ideas -- Chapter 8. The Legacy of Ancient Greece -- Index.

"To understand what it was like to muse with the philosophers at the Acropolis, to see Sophocles' plays at the Dionysiac festivals, to adhere to a religion of mischevious gods and heroic legends, or simply to live at the time and place where western civilizaiotn was born, you need to read the History of Ancient Greece. Respected historian, Nathaniel Harris, analyses the social, cultural and political life of the Greeks from the early civilizaiotns to Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic age. The full story of the ancient Greek experience is described: the religion, philosophy, theatre, arts, science and domestic life. Backed up by over 200 color illustraitons, the History of Ancient Greece will give a real understanding of what the people of the time thought and felt."