Focuses on eleven major Greek cities for a comprehensive cultural overview
Explores themes such as economics, religion, gender, and politics to provide multidimensional insights
Includes both well-known cities like Athens and Sparta and lesser-known sites like Miletus and Massalia
Written by Paul Cartledge, an inaugural professor of Greek culture at the University of Cambridge
Summarized by Shop
The contribution of the Ancient Greeks to modern western culture is incalculable. In the worlds of art, architecture, myth, literature, and philosophy, the world we live in would be unrecognizably different without the formative influence of Ancient Greek models. Ancient Greek civilization was defined by the city - in Greek, the polis, fr