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Michael Grant looks at the policies and government of the hundreds of independent city-states and at the everyday life of the citizens. With fluency and scholarships he shows how the brilliance of the Ancient Greeks' civilization was by no means limited to the Golden Age of its classical fifth century, but its early period was remarkable too. For 500 years the Greek city-states achieved a civilisation which has been an inspiration and an ideal ever since. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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That went off on a tangent. Anyway, The Rise of the Greeks actually forms an informal trilogy of compendiums by Mr. Grant, the others being The Classical Greeks and From Alexander to Cleopatra. These are organized similarly, but focus on the people and characters, as opposed to places, of a more time-focused era than the sprawling centuries long Rise of the Greeks. The Classical Greeks will probably be my next read, but I might take a short detour away from Greece for a few days.
A last note, the Rise is filled, quite singularly, with huge, complex, comma filled, (with stuff here and sub-ideas in brackets and finishing a thought over here), yet, somehow, the idea, such as it is, gets across to the reader, in spite of, or maybe because of, all the commas, but I, however, doubt it. Maybe it's a British thing, but it was blatant in the beginning and tapered off as the book continued along. Just an observation on the subtleties of editing ( )