A Brief History of Ancient Greece
Subtitle: Politics, Society, and Culture
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 15, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780195156805
First sentence: The most charismatic cultural hero of the ancient Greeks was Odysseus, a man who "saw the towns of many men and learned their minds, and suffered in his heart many griefs upon the sea . . ." (Odyssey 1.3-4).