Greek Achievement (Allen Lane History)
Publisher: Penguin Putnam~trade
Published: July 10, 1999
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780713992243
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; World history: BCE to c 500 CE; Ancient Greece; Ancient World; BCE to c 500 CE; Prehistory; c 1000 CE to c 1500; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE
First sentence: If there is one icon (Greek eikon, an image or likeness) that stands for ancient Greece and its leading city-state of the fifth century B.C., Athens, it is the Parthenon, the temple dedicated to Athena, as maiden, parthenos, which rises in splendor on the Acropolis of Athens.