Ebook: Ancient Greece

Beginning with the Homeric period, once believed to be a realm of myth, Mike Paine takes the reader on a journey through twelve centuries and more of Greek culture. He shows what archaeologists have revealed of the Trojan Wars and Mycenae, outlines the glories of Athens at its height and provides a gripping narrative of the struggle between the Greeks and the mighty Persian empire.;Cover; Title pages; Contents; Introduction: The Geography of Greece; Minoan and Mycenaean Greece; Archaic Greece; Classical Greece; The Hellenistic Age and Afterwards; Recommended Reading and Further Resources; Copyright.