A lively pop-history guide to ancient Greece, showing how its myths, wars, ideas, and culture still shape the modern Western world.
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A lively pop-history guide to ancient Greece, showing how its myths, wars, ideas, and culture still shape the modern Western world.
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Why is ancient Greece important? Because, quite simply, if we want to understand the modern Western world, we need to look back to the Greeks. Consider the way we think about ethics, about the nature of beauty and truth, about our place in the universe, about our mortality. All this we have learned from the ancient Greeks. They molded the basic disciplines and genres in which we still organize thought, from poetry to drama, from medicine to philosophy, from history to ethnography.Packed with use...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Brief references to sexuality and mythic affairs in ancient Greek culture
Violence & gore
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Homeric warfare, battles, and warrior culture discussed without graphic detail
Profanity
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No evidence found in available sources
Substance use
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No evidence found in available sources
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Historical discussion of homosexuality and same-sex relations in ancient Greece
Religious content
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Recurring coverage of Greek gods, mythology, temples, and religious practice
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Discusses democracy, slavery, women's status, and Greek social structures
Self-harm / suicide
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No evidence found in available sources
Abuse & suffering
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Covers slavery, limited rights of women, and other historical cruelties
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