Graecia Capta
Subtitle: The Landscapes of Roman Greece
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 26, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780521568197
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Classical Archaeology; Economic And Social Archaeology; History; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History: World; Ancient Greece; Greece; Ancient - General; Antiquities; History / Ancient / General
First sentence: Captive Greece lies caught within a paradox: the sublimely gifted Greeks, origin and inspiration of western culture, nonetheless fell to other, and somehow lesser, civilizations.