Название: A History of Ancient Greece - From the Heroic Age to the Death of Alexander the GreatАвтор: John Bagnell Bury
Издательство: Didactic Press
Год: 2015
Формат: pdf, epub. djvu
Страниц: 897
Размер: 15,81 Мб
Язык: английский
The conquest of the Greek peninsula by the Greeks lies a long way behind recorded history, and the Greeks themselves, when they began to reflect on their own past, had completely forgotten what their remote ancestors had done ages and ages before. Their legends, their epic poems, their geographical names gave them material for attempting to reconstruct their history, and the outline of that reconstruction, which was a feat of genius, will demand our attention presently...