Brief Histories: Ancient Greece: Everything you wanted to know but forgot to ask

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Journey back in time to explore one the most fascinating and influential periods of ancient history.

In this concise and incredibly readable short history, Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts journeys from the warrior societies of The Bronze Age all the way to the invention of democracy during the golden age of Athens, charting the incredible rise and fall of the Greek world and revealing just how much the Greeks influenced the world we live in today, from art and philosophy to architecture and politics.

Brief Histories: Ancient Greece is the perfect short introduction for anyone interested in the Greek world and all it has to offer.

About the author

Ellie Mackin Roberts is an ancient historian who works on ancient Greek religious practices, and the way that people interacted with and reacted to the gods and their beliefs. She is a Research Associate at the Institute of Classical Studies in London, and took her PhD in Classics at King's College London.

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