num_pages: 449
description: In 1872, Jacob Burckhardt, one of the preeminent historians of classical and Renaissance culture, presented this revolutionary work, which portrays ancient Greek culture as an aristocratic world based on a ruthless competition for honor, a competition that led, in turn, to a tyranous state with minimal personal freedoms. Burckhardt's landmark project, the culmination of thirty years of scholarlship by leading Oxford historian, Oswyn Murray, offers a rich cultural history of a fascinating society.
language: English
title: The Greeks and Greek Civilization
titlecomplete: The Greeks and Greek Civilization
genres: History, Classics, Mythology, Greece, Philosophy, Ancient History, Politics, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 80
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin