The Greek world : classical, Byzantine and modern / texts by Robert Browning [and others] ; edited by Robert Browning.

Originally published by Thames and Hudson in 1985.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue : land and people / Robert Browning -- The age of the heroes : Crete and Mycenae in the Bronze Age / A.M. Snodgrass -- Between the Persian Wars and Alexander : the flowering of the classical world / Claude Moss Ì-- Thinking about the cosmos : Greek philosophy from Thales to Aristotle / A.A. Long -- Classical art : the beginning of the European tradition / J.M. Cook -- The foundations of literature : poetry and prose from Homer to the gospels / Peter Levi -- The age of kings : from Alexander to the Roman conquest / Michel Austin -- Rome and the Greek East : imperial rule and transformation / Averil Cameron -- A Christian millennium : Greece in Byzantium / Judith Herrin -- The impact of Hellenism : Greek culture in the Moslem and Slav worlds / Speros Vryonis, Jr. -- Towards nationhood : the survival of the Hellenic spirit / Nikos Svoronos -- Beyond the frontiers : the Greek Diaspora / George Yannoulopoulos -- Eclipse and rebirth : from the Ottoman period to modern Greece / Richard Clogg.