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It's All Greek to Me: From Achilles' Heel to Pythagoras' Theorem: How Ancient Greece Has Shaped Our World
It's All Greek to Me From Achilles' Heel to Pythagoras' Theorem How Ancient Greece Has Shaped Our World
Author: Charlotte Higgins
Why is ancient Greece important? Because, quite simply, if we want to understand the modern Western world, we need to look back to the Greeks. Consider the way we think about ethics, about the nature of beauty and truth, about our place in the universe, about our mortality. All this we have learned from the ancient Greeks. They molded the basic ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781906021597
ISBN-10: 1906021597
Publication Date: 7/2/2009
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Short Books Ltd
Book Type: Paperback
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