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Baker, Howard

Persephone's Cave: Cultural Accumulations of the Early Greeks

University of Georgia Press, 1979

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Year of publication
1979
ISBN
0820304387
Place of printing
Athens GA
Author
Baker, Howard
Publishers
University of Georgia Press
Keyword
ANCIENT GREECE SCIENCE PHILOSOPHY GREEK
Cover description
Very Good, Slight Chips
Binding description
H
Inscription description
Signed by Author(s)
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
Fine
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
Yes
First edition
No

Description

A wide-ranging speculative bookstarting with developments in ancient Greece " Its chapters are centered upon the tunnel of Eupalinus, Ionian architecture, modern Samos, and such cultural heroes as Pythagoras, Aesop, and Eudoxus of Cnidus; but the declared subject of each chapter is the hub of a wheel with spokes going in all the directions of the early Greek experiment: ship-building, religion, poetry, historiography, sculpture, commerce, fable, drama, medicine, mathematics, astrology, coinage, mythology, city- planning."335p. illus maps bibliography index. maps on endpapers. Author inscription on ffep.

Edizione: 1st us ed.