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It's All Greek to Me: How Ancient Greece Has Shaped Our World

by Charlotte Higgins - £8.99  Short Books Ltd (2009)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781906021597 | ISBN 10: 1906021597

With everything from Achilles’ heel to Pythagoras’ theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own. Consider the way we think: about right and wrong, about the nature of beauty, goodness, and truth. What, in the end, it is to be a human being amid the immensity of the universe. All this, and more, we have learned from the ancient Greeks. They moulded the basic disciplines and genres in which we still organise thought: from poetry to drama, from politics to philosophy, from history to medicine.
 
Packed with useful cribs – history timelines; a who’s who; a guide to the Greek gods; a map for those who struggle to know their Lemnos from their Lesbos – It’s All Greek To Me is a bluffer’s guide in one sense, that will give you a helping hand around Greek democracy, the Persian Wars, or the Parthenon. But it is much more than that; it is a book which aims to bring ancient Greece back into the mainstream of life – where it belongs.

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