TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spawforth,Antony
TI  - The story of Greece and Rome
SN  - 0300217110
AV  - DE59 .S64 2018
U1  - 938 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - HISTORY / Ancient / Greece
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY / Ancient / Rome
KW  - HISTORY / Civilization
KW  - HISTORY / World
KW  - Civilization
KW  - fast
KW  - Greece
KW  - To 146 B.C
KW  - Rome
KW  - Rome (Empire)
KW  - Nonfiction
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-355) and index; Prologue. The Wild and the Tamed: Ancient Views of Civilization -- Part I. The Greeks -- Part II. The Romans
N2  - The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However, narratives about the "civilized" Greek and Roman empires resisting the barbarians at the gate are far from accurate. Tony Spawforth, an esteemed scholar, author, and media contributor, follows the thread of civilization through more than six millennia of history. His story reveals that Greek and Roman civilization, to varying degrees, was supremely and surprisingly receptive to external influences, particularly from the East. From the rise of the Mycenaean world of the sixteenth century B.C., Spawforth traces a path through the ancient Aegean to the zenith of the Hellenic state and the rise of the Roman empire, the coming of Christianity and the consequences of the first caliphate. Deeply informed, provocative, and entirely fresh, this is the first and only accessible work that tells the extraordinary story of the classical world in its entirety
ER  -