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A cabinet of Greek curiosities : strange tales and surprising facts from the cradle of western civilization /
Like its companion volume, A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities, this is an uproarious miscellany of odd stories and facts, culled from a lifetime of teaching ancient Greek civilization. In some ways, the book demonstrates how much the Greeks were like us. Politicians were regarded as shallow and self-ser...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Food and drink
- Children and education
- Women
- Sex
- Animals
- Athens
- Sparta
- Alexander the Great
- Greeks at sea
- Greeks and barbarians
- Athletics
- Homer
- Drama
- Spectators and critics
- Books and papyri
- Philosophers
- Mathematics
- Science and technology
- Art
- Tourists and tourist attractions
- Religion, superstition, and magic
- Prophecy
- Words and expressions
- The soros.