Author: BAKER, HOWARD
Title: Persephone's Cave: Cultural Accumulations of the Early Greeks
Description: Athens GA, University of Georgia Press. 1979, 1st US Ed.. (ISBN: 0820304387) Hardcover. Book, 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. Fine/Very Good, Slight Chips. Signed by Author(s).

Keywords: 0820304387 Ancient Greece Science Philosophy Greek Greek Science & Technology Greek Civilization


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