Author: Carole P. Roman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781947118188
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Learn what kind of food you might eat in Ancient China, what colors could only be worn by royalty, what kind of names parents picked, and what children in the Han Dynasty children did for fun.
Author: Ivan Minnis
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 9781410910097
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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This book describes what it was like to live in Athens, a city-state of ancient Greece about 460 B.C.E.
Author: Robin Waterfield
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198727887
Category : Civilization, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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A fascinating, accessible, and up-to-date history of the Ancient Greeks. Covering the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods, and centred around the disunity of the Greeks, their underlying cultural unity, and their eventual political unification.
Author: Fiona MacDonald
Publisher: Franklin Watts
ISBN: 9780749635022
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Describes life in ancient Greece.
Author: Edith Hall
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393244121
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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"Wonderful…a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours." —Natalie Haynes, Independent The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, acclaimed classics scholar Edith Hall offers a bold synthesis of the full 2,000 years of Hellenic history to show how the ancient Greeks were the right people, at the right time, to take up the baton of human progress. Hall portrays a uniquely rebellious, inquisitive, individualistic people whose ideas and creations continue to enthrall thinkers centuries after the Greek world was conquered by Rome. These are the Greeks as you’ve never seen them before.
Author: Paul Cartledge
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468316079
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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The riveting, definitive account of the ancient Greek city of Thebes, by the acclaimed author of The Spartans—now in paperback Among the extensive writing available about the history of ancient Greece, there is precious little about the city-state of Thebes. At one point the most powerful city in ancient Greece, Thebes has been long overshadowed by its better-known rivals, Athens and Sparta. In Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece, acclaimed classicist and historian Paul Cartledge brings the city vividly to life and argues that it is central to our understanding of the ancient Greeks’ achievements—whether politically or culturally—and thus to the wider politico-cultural traditions of western Europe, the Americas, and indeed the world. From its role as an ancient political power, to its destruction at the hands of Alexander the Great as punishment for a failed revolt, to its eventual restoration by Alexander’s successor, Cartledge deftly chronicles the rise and fall of the ancient city. He recounts the history with deep clarity and mastery for the subject and makes clear both the di?erences and the interconnections between the Thebes of myth and the Thebes of history. Written in clear prose and illustrated with images in two color inserts, Thebes is a gripping read for students of ancient history and those looking to experience the real city behind the myths of Cadmus, Hercules, and Oedipus.
Author: Peter Connolly
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199108107
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Book Description
Explores the history of the early civilization of Greece, as well as, their architecture, art, sports, poetry, drama, and music.
Author: Linda Bailey
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 9781550745368
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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An exciting blend of fact and fiction and comic-book style illustrations make learning about Ancient Greece fun in this book in the Good Times Travel Agency series.
Author: Chae Strathie
Publisher: So You Think You've Got It Bad
ISBN: 9781839941054
Category : Children, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A brilliantly funny and fascinating look at what life was like for a child in prehistoric times!
Author: Robert Garland
Publisher: Sterling
ISBN: 9781454909088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
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Book Description
You'll explore all aspects of Greek life: literacy, household chores, education, illness, festivals, economy and trade, coinage, law and order, military service, the Olympic Games, theatrical performances, mythology, and more.
