It's all Greek to me
Subtitle: from Homer to the Hippocratic Oath, how ancient Greece has shaped our world
By: Charlotte Higgins
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780061804007
Description: "An informative, smart, and very amusing narrative about how influential Greeks and Greek culture have been on the rest of the world, from art to architecture to literature to politics to love"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Originally published: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The alpha and the omega: why a life without Homer is a life half-lived; title: The living, the dead and the deathless: mortality in Hesiod, Homer and Sophocles; title: Man is a political animal: democracy and the polis; title: Pandora's daughters: the silent majority; title: Swords and sandals: war in Homer, Herodotus and Thucydides; title: Beyond the borders: Greeks and barbarians; title: The twilight of the gods: the beginnings of science, from Thales to Aristotle; title: The death of Socrates and the birth of philosophy: the challenge of Plato's Republic; title: Love and loss: desire in Homer, Sappho and Plato.