The Greeks (Rebuilding the Past)

The Greeks (Rebuilding the Past)

by R.E.C.Burrell (Author), P.Connolly (Illustrator)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 112
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 01 Sep 1990

ISBN 10: 0199171610
ISBN 13: 9780199171613

Media Reviews
A commendable introductory analysis of the development of the culture, life, and customs of ancient Greece.... The text is clearly written and readable. --School Library Journal
Will reach a broad age range, from advanced elementary grades through middle school. Children's illustrator Peter Connolly provides the colorful, authentic-looking recreations of historical fact that will lend to the easy appeal of these fact-filled guides... Provide[s] reviews of everyday life of
the times, blending essays based on a range of historical sources with vivid descriptions of early monarchs and Greek... culture. --Children's Bookwatch
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 (London)


A commendable introductory analysis of the development of the culture, life, and customs of ancient Greece.... The text is clearly written and readable. --School Library Journal
Will reach a broad age range, from advanced elementary grades through middle school. Children's illustrator Peter Connolly provides the colorful, authentic-looking recreations of historical fact that will lend to the easy appeal of these fact-filled guides... Provide[s] reviews of everyday life of
the times, blending essays based on a range of historical sources with vivid descriptions of early monarchs and Greek... culture. --Children's Bookwatch
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 (London)

A commendable introductory analysis of the development of the culture, life, and customs of ancient Greece.... The text is clearly written and readable. --School Library Journal
Will reach a broad age range, from advanced elementary grades through middle school. Children's illustrator Peter Connolly provides the colorful, authentic-looking recreations of historical fact that will lend to the easy appeal of these fact-filled guides... Provide[s] reviews of everyday life of the times, blending essays based on a range of historical sources with vivid descriptions of early monarchs and Greek... culture. --Children's Bookwatch
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 (London)


A commendable introductory analysis of the development of the culture, life, and customs of ancient Greece.... The text is clearly written and readable. --School Library Journal


Will reach a broad age range, from advanced elementary grades through middle school. Children's illustrator Peter Connolly provides the colorful, authentic-looking recreations of historical fact that will lend to the easy appeal of these fact-filled guides... Provide[s] reviews of everyday life of the times, blending essays based on a range of historical sources with vivid descriptions of early monarchs and Greek... culture. --Children's Bookwatch


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 (London)