Any attempt to present the history of the Greek and the Persians, from Darius I to Alexander, immediately faces a serious difficulty : the problem of sources. A few Old Persian inscriptions and som…
Continental or central Greece is the geographical region of Greece which consists of the prefectures of Attica, Euboea, Boeotia, Phthiotis, Photic, Evrytania and Aetolia-Ancamania. It is located to…
Jean-Pierre Vernant's concise, brilliant essay on the origins of Greek thought relates the cultural achievement of the ancient Greeks to their physical and social environment and shows that what th…
When Heinrich Schliemann was a boy he became fascinated with the hometric epics and the civilizations they describe. He determined early on to find the great cities of the..
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work…