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The Greek Way

Categorie	Algemeen Geschiedenis
Boeknummer	#386901-UG10
Titel	The Greek Way
Auteur	Hamilton, Edith
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	New York/London : W. W. Norton & Company
Jaar van uitgave	1993
ISBN10	0393310779
ISBN13	9780393310771
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting	The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece. "Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilizaed world, a strange new power was at work. . . . Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius which so molded the world of mind and of spirit that our mind and spirit today are different. . . . What was then produced of art and of thought has never been surpasses and very rarely equalled, and the stamp of it is upon all the art and all the thought of the Western world." A perennial favorite in many different editions, Edith Hamilton's best-selling The Greek Way captures the spirit and achievements of Greece in the fifth century B. C. A retired headmis... (Lees verder)tress when she began her writing career in the 1930s, Hamilton immediately demonstrated a remarkable ability to bring the world of ancient Greece to life, introducing that world to the twentieth century. The New York Times called The Greek Way a "book of both cultural and critical importance."
Pagina's	212
Conditie	Goed — Endpapers browned, edges some inside pages slightly browned.
Prijs	€ 12,50

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