Volume II of Will and Ariel Durant's The Story of Civilization — covering ancient Greek history from the Minoans through the Hellenistic age — one of the most accessible and comprehensive popular accounts of ancient Greece.
Makes ancient Greek civilization — its philosophy, politics, art, science, and everyday life — accessible to a general educated American audience through Durant's characteristic combination of scholarship and vivid narrative prose.
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