E-grāmata: Ancient Greeks: Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern World

Hall examines in scholarly but very readable detail. -- Simon Shaw * Mail on Sunday * Halls superb history achieves her aim with a happy marrying of literature and archaeology. -- Lesley McDowell * Independent * If youre interested in their history then it is worth reading, and I think even those with some knowledge of the Greeks would learn something from this book. -- Judith Griffith * Nudge * Terrifically good -- Natalie Haynes * Observer * [ Hall] provides a thoroughly readable and illuminating account of this fascinating people This excellent book makes us admire and like the ancient Greeks equally -- John Davie * Independent * A worthy and lively introduction to one of the two groups of ancient peoples who really formed the western world -- Christopher Hart * Sunday Times * This new tome serves as a fantastic general introduction * Big Issue * Edith Hall has a brilliant ability to intellectually analyse the Greeks because of deep, searching curiosity, and her sense of how this culture reflects upon our moment now. Her writing is so clear and accessible full of complex reflections and revelations -- Ian Rickson Wide-ranging and endlessly fascinating It is a fitting tribute to history that ought to be preserved because it would, at the very least, enrich our conversation and range of comparison with events today -- Daisy Dunn * Standpoint * This crisp little book is also worth reading for Halls elegant prose -- Suzi Feay * Financial Times *