
Author/Contributor(s): | Cartledge, Paul |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, USA |
Date: | 11/10/2011 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Condition: | NEW |
examines Argos, Thebes, Syracuse in Sicily, and Alexandria in Egypt, as well as lesser known locales such as Miletus (home of the West's first intellectual, Thales) and Massalia (Marseilles today), where the Greeks introduced the wine grape to the French. The author uses these cities to illuminate
major themes, from economics, religion, and social relations, to gender and sexuality, slavery and freedom, and politics.