by Peter Connolly (Contributor), R.E.C. Burrell (Author)
Burrell and Connolly take us to opening night for a play by Euripides, the first Olympic Games, Alexander the Great's last battle, the rebuilding of the Acropolis, and through the whole fascinating history of ancient Greece. The Greeks covers the centuries from the Minoans to the breakup of Alexander's empire and the conquest of Greece by Rome. Especially geared for the young reader, the short, fact-filled chapters with easy-to-read text is accompanied by Connolly's richly detiled and authentic illustrations.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 29 Jun 1989
ISBN 10: 0199171017
ISBN 13: 9780199171019
Above all what emerges from the text and the superb illustrations is a sense of vitality of a real world inhabited by real people who are absorbed, as we all are, by the daily round of the business of living, and affected, as we all are, by the march of events over which we have little or no control. The...[ancient] world is brought close to our own. --Literary Times Supplement (UK)