TY  - BOOK
AU  - Higgins,Charlotte
TI  - It's all Greek to me: from Homer to the Hippocratic Oath, how ancient Greece has shaped our world 
SN  - 9780061804007 (hardback)
AV  - DF78 .H63 2008
U1  - 938 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London
PB  -  Short
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Greek influences
KW  - Greece
KW  - To 146 B.C
KW  - Intellectual life
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The alpha and the omega: why a life without Homer is a life half lived -- The living, the dead and the deathless: mortality in Hesiod, Homer and Sophocles -- Man is a political animal: democracy and the polis -- Pandora's daughters: the silent majority -- Swords and sandals: war in Homer, Herodotus and Thucydides -- Beyond the borders: Greeks and barbarians -- The twilight of the gods: the beginnings of science from Thales to Aristotle -- The death of Socrates and the birth of philosophy: the challenge of Plato's Republic -- Love and loss: desire in Homer, Sappho and Plato
N2  - "An informative, smart, and very amusing narrative about how influential Greeks and Greek culture have been on the rest of the world, from art to architecture to literature to politics to love"-- Provided by publisher
ER  -