{"product_id":"the-greeks-isbn-9780140135213","title":"The Greeks","description":"“The best introduction I have ever read to Ancient Greece. The author’s liveliness of mind and style has enabled him to make a mass of information appetizing and digestible” –Ray Mortimer in the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Greeks were extraordinary not least because they evolved \"a totally new conception of what human life was for.\" Justifying and elaborating on that claim, H.D.F. Kitto explores the life, culture and history of classical Greece, bringing to his subject the passion, wit and insight that have made this brief introduction a world-famous classic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Professor Kitto is a model historian – lively, accurate, and fully acquainted with the latest developments in the subject . . . never vague . . . often witty and always full of vigour.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Times Educational Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e1 INTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e2 THE FORMATION OF THE GREEK PEOPLE\u003cbr\u003e3 THE COUNTRY\u003cbr\u003e4 HOMER\u003cbr\u003e5 THE POLIS\u003cbr\u003e6 CLASSICAL GREECE: THE EARLY PERIOD\u003cbr\u003e7 CLASSICAL GREECE: THE FIFTH CENTURY\u003cbr\u003e8 THE GREEKS AT WAR\u003cbr\u003e9 THE DECLINE OF THE POLIS\u003cbr\u003e10 THE GREEK MIND\u003cbr\u003e11 MYTH AND RELIGION\u003cbr\u003e12 LIFE AND CHARACTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eINDEX\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eH. D. F. Kitto\u003c\/b\u003e was a highly respected authority on classical Greek literature. His seminal work,\u003ci\u003e The Greeks\u003c\/i\u003e, is considered the industry standard by scholars worldwide. It has seen more than 30 reprints and has been translated into several languages. Kitto served as a lecturer in Greek at the University of Glasgow before joing Bristol University as a professor of Greek from 1944 to 1962. He died in 1982.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302523195621,"sku":"NP9780140135213","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140135213.jpg?v=1767739665","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-greeks-isbn-9780140135213","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}