The Pelican History of GreecePenguin, 1966 - 415 pages The general reader is introduced to Greek history from the time of the neolit pioneers to the close of the Hellenistic Age. |
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... Attica and Salamis . At Athens the lower town was abandoned in haste and panic ; but the Acropolis held out , with access to water by a secret stair , ingeniously fitted between the north face of the rock and a huge , split - off flake ...
... Attica and Salamis . At Athens the lower town was abandoned in haste and panic ; but the Acropolis held out , with access to water by a secret stair , ingeniously fitted between the north face of the rock and a huge , split - off flake ...
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... Attica as ' thin - soiled ' ( as Thucydides does ) , they are writing at a time when the popu- lation had long since overflowed the limits of the plains , so that most Athenian farmers were farming hill - foot land , which was thin ...
... Attica as ' thin - soiled ' ( as Thucydides does ) , they are writing at a time when the popu- lation had long since overflowed the limits of the plains , so that most Athenian farmers were farming hill - foot land , which was thin ...
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... Attica . Naturally we do not know much about what was done ; but a Christian writer says that the climax of the second initiation , taken in a later year and by relatively few worshippers , was the eleva- tion by the priest of an ear of ...
... Attica . Naturally we do not know much about what was done ; but a Christian writer says that the climax of the second initiation , taken in a later year and by relatively few worshippers , was the eleva- tion by the priest of an ear of ...
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PREHISTORY | 12 |
Beginnings | 21 |
Peoples and Languages and the Coming | 30 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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