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The ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical, and cultural language, they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry, laid the foundations of philosophy, history, tragedy, and comedy, and debated everything from the good life and the role of women, to making sense of foreigners and the best form of government, all in the most sophisticated terms. But who were they? In Eureka!, Peter Jones...
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In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were already dealt with by our ancient ancestors two thousand years ago. Romans inhabited a world where man, knowing nothing-about hygiene let alone disease, had no defenses against nature. Death was everywhere. Half of all Roman children were dead by the age...
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In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and fascination of their ideas that makes the Ancient Greeks and Romans so important and influential today. For over 2,000 years these ideas have gripped Western imagination and been instrumental in the way we think about the world. Covering everything from philosophy, history and architecture to language and grammar, Jones uncovers their astonishing intellectual,...
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