Introducing the ancient Greeks

Hall, Edith, 1959-2015

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Who were the ancient Greeks? They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. But what was it about them that enabled them to achieve such titanic leaps forwards in civilization? The ancient Greeks were a geographically disparate people whose civilization lasted over 20 centuries - this is the ancient civilization made us who we are today. Renowned classicist Edith Hall offers a revelatory and entirely new way of viewing this scattered people, identifying ten unique personality traits that she shows to be unique and central to the widespread ancient Greeks.