Ancient Greece - Furio Durando

the dawn of the Western world

KORTE INHOUD

'Ancient Greece: The Dawn of the Western World' sets out to relate the story of ancient Greece, its civilization, culture, and art, in a way no publication has ever done before. The book takes readers on a journey of discovery, using more than 1000 photographs of outstanding quality, many of them never before published. The book opens with a brief but complete history of Hellas, from its origins through the Roman conquest, and then moves on to an exploration of how the ancient Greeks lived - the homes they dwelled in, the jewelry they wore, the religions they practiced, the dramas they performed, the wars they fought, the games they played.
'Ancient Greece' documents the course of Greek art -from the abstract purity of the Cycladic idols to the absolute perfection of the Classical era and on to the mannerism of the Hellenistic period - as well as its peerless architecture. There are hundred of magnificent photographs of Greek ruins as well as specially commissioned full-colour reconstructions of the most signi...
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