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ANCIENT

GREECE

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ANCIENT
GREECE

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Bronze mirror cover showing Aphrodite playing knucklebones with Pan. 350 b.c.

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ANCIENT
GREECE

Written by
ANNE PEARSON
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LONDON, NEW YORK,
MELBOURNE, MUNICH, and DELHI

Project editor Gillian Denton
Art editor Liz Sephton
Senior editor Helen Parker
Senior art editor Julia Harris
Production Louise Barratt
Picture research Diana Morris
Special photography Nick Nicolls
Additional photography Liz MacCaulay

Paperback Edition
Managing editors Andrew Macintyre, Camilla Hallinan
Managing art editors Jane Thomas, Martin Wilson
Publishing manager Sunita Gahir
Category publisher Andrea Pinnington
Editors Lorrie Mack, Sue Nicholson
Art editor Catherine Goldsmith
Production Jenny Jacoby, Angela Graef
Picture research Jo Haddon

DTP designers Siu Chan, Andy Hilliard, Ronaldo Julien Terracotta
This Eyewitness Guide has been conceived by
Dorling Kindersley Limited and Editions Gallimard
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Terracotta First published in Great Britain in 1992
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Copyright 1992, 2007, Dorling Kindersley Limited
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ISBN 978-1-40532-041-2
Colour reproduction by Colourscan, Singapore
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Contents

6
The Greek world
8
Minoan civilization
10
The Mycenaean civilization
12
To Troy and back
14
Greek expansion
16
Athens, city of Athena 18
Power and politics in Athens 20
Gods, goddesses, and heroes 24
Festivals and oracles
26
Temples
28
At home
30
Womens world
32
Growing up in Greece 34
Fun and games
36
Wining and dining
38
A day out
40
Body beautiful
42
Clothes for comfort
44
The Greek games
46
Wisdom and beauty
Childs toy
48
Vases and vessels
50
Farming, fishing, and food 52
Crafts, travel, and trade
54
Warfare
56
The state of Sparta
58
Science and medicine
60
Death and the afterlife
62
Alexander and the Hellenistic age
64
Did you know?
66
Whos who
68
Find out more
70
Glossary
72
Index

The briTish museum
The British Museum in London was inspired by classical Greek architecture. The first part of the building was completed in 1827 and the building as it is today gradually arose over the next 30 years. Many of the objects in this book can be seen there.

The Greek world

T he land of Greece is made up of mainland Greece and the numerous islands scattered throughout the Aegean and Adriatic Seas. It is a mountainous country with hot

dry summers and rain only in winter. The early Greek settlements developed as small independent communities cut off from each other by the mountains and

often competing for the best land, because the fertile arable soil is in short supply. Each of the city

Kouros
Kouroi (marble statues of naked boys), were

made mainly in the sixth century b.c. to decorate sanctuaries of the gods, especially

Apollo, but some may have been put up in memory of young soldiers who had died in battle. They

stand with their arms by their sides and one foot in front of the other.

states which developed out of these communities had a strong individual identity, and citizens were very loyal to their home state and to its patron deity. This miscellaneous collection of city-states sometimes joined together for mutual defence and did so most successfully against the Persians. The Greeks produced a glorious culture which has had a profound effect on western civilization, through succeeding centuries to the present day. They scaled the heights in literature, the visual and dramatic arts, in philosophy and politics, in sport, and in many other aspects of human life. Greek civilization reached its peak in Athens in the fifth centuryb.c.

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