Ancient Greece

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The widely acknowledged fountainhead of Western civilization, Ancient Greece -- is surveyed here in unprecedented detail by more than eighty leading scholars. Includes comprehensive, up-to-date overviews of Greek history, from the Bronze Age to the fall of the last major autonomous Greek leader, as well as Greek democracy, art, architecture, theater and drama, social and economic institutions, religion, military affairs, biographies of prominent figures, maps and lists of geographical locations and much more. The most sweeping and thorough non-scholarly volume of its kind.