The history of classical Greece. ( )

Excellent synopsis of the culture that began Western Civilization. ( )

i am not really interested in ancient people. this was okay. ( )

Five years of study in Latin focused me on the ancient Romans, but they were strongly derivative of and influenced by the classical Greeks. This book does a fine job of making sense of a place and time in human history that is probably the major influence of our western civilization's ideals and philosophies. Roughly from 1200 b.c. to 330 b.c. ( )

Eight "picture essays" from the cradling creation of Greek civilization, its "dark age", renaissance, and wars, to Alexander and the aftermath of Empire. Appendices with Chronology, gods, heroes, famous ones.