A History of Ancient Greece in Fifty Lives by David Stuttard

A History of Ancient Greece in Fifty Lives by David Stuttard

In this original new approach to telling the Greek story, David Stuttard weaves together the lives of fifty movers and shakers of the Greek world into a continuous, chronologically organized narrative, from the early tyrant rulers Peisistratus and Polycrates, through the stirrings of democracy under Cleisthenes to the rise of Macedon under Philip II and Alexander the Great and the eventual decline of the Greek world as Rome rose. The political leaders, writers, artists and philosophers of ancient Greece turned a small group of city states into a pan-Mediterranean civilization, whose legacy can be found everywhere today. But who were these people, what do we know of their lives and how did they interact with one another?

'A few great men operating in isolation – too often this is the way ancient Greece is described to usStuttard puts the very greatest into their historical, political and cultural contexts and coaxes some of the lesser known centre stage' - Bettany Hughes, author of Helen of Troy

David Stuttard taught Classics for eleven years in Edinburgh, St Andrews and York, and has written numerous books on the Classical world including Greek Mythology: A Traveller’s Guide from Mount Olympus to Troy, A History of Ancient Greece in Fifty Lives and The Romans Who Shaped Britain (with Sam Moorhead), all published by Thames & Hudson. He is the founder of the theatre company Actors of Dionysus and a Fellow of Goodenough College, London.

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ISBN 13	9780500252055
ISBN 10	050025205X
Titre	A History of Ancient Greece in Fifty Lives
Auteur	David Stuttard
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Type de reliure	Hardback
Éditeur	Thames & Hudson Ltd
Année de publication	2014-09-08
Nombre de pages	288
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