Ancient Greece: A Very Short Introduction Poetry_Gift_Guide In this book you will

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emphatically rejects the shibboleth of the "Great Man" theory of history

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The spellbinding story Scott Anderson weaves is one of a dictator blind to the disdain of his subjects and a superpower blundering into disaster

Ancient Greece: A Very Short Introduction Poetry_Gift_Guide In this book you willThis highly original introduction to ancient Greece uses the history of eleven major Greek cities to illuminate the most important and informative aspects of Greek culture. Cartledge highlights the role of such renowned cities as Athens (birthplace of democracy) and Sparta, but he also examines Argos, Thebes, Syracuse in Sicily, and Alexandria in Egypt, as well as lesser known locales such as Miletus (home of the West's first intellectual, Thales) and