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2000., Pre-adolescent, Peter Bedrick Books Call No: 938 BAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Art and civilizationSummary Note: An illustrated examination of the art and civilization of Ancient Greece, covering the Minoans and Mycenaeans, the Archaic Period, religion and the gods, classical Athens, Sparta, colonies and trade, war, entertainment, the Hellenistic Period, and the Greek influence.
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Call No: 938 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Ancient GreeceSummary Note: Explores the family of gods and goddesses that the ancient Greeks worshiped.
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2004, c2003., Nan A. Talese/Doubleday Call No: 909.09 CAH Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, his fourth volume to explore "the hinges of history," Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining--and historically unassailable--journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago. In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek islands, honors could be won in making love and war, and lives were rife with contradictions. By developing the alphabet, the Greeks empowered the reader, demystified experience, and opened the way for civil discussion and experimentation--yet they kept slaves. The glorious verses of the Iliad recount a conflict in which rage and outrage spur men to action and suggest that their "bellicose society of gleaming metals and rattling weapons" is not so very distant from more recent campaigns of "shock and awe." And, centuries before Zorba, Greece was a land where music, dance, and freely flowing wine were essential to the high life. Granting equal time to the sacred and the profane, Cahill rivets our attention to the legacies of an ancient and enduring worldview.
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c2011., Heinemann Library Call No: 938 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Series Title: Linking the past and present
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[2015]., Juvenile, Cherry Lake Publishing Call No: 398.2 0938 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Mythology and culture