Bibliograph

It's all Greek to me, from Homer to the Hippocratic Oath, how ancient Greece has shaped our world, Charlotte Higgins

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It's all Greek to me, from Homer to the Hippocratic Oath, how ancient Greece has shaped our world, Charlotte Higgins

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

It's all Greek to me

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

419857641

Responsibility statement

Charlotte Higgins

Sub title

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

Summary

"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

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

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