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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Adam Nicolson crafts a geography of the ancient world and a brilliant exploration of our connections to the past"--
Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests. Twenty-five hundred years ago, in a succession of small eastern Mediterranean harbor cities, a few heroic men and women decided to cast off mental subservience and apply their own thinking minds to the conundrums of life. These great innovators shaped...
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