Reader recommendation: Introducing the Ancient Greeks
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
By
Michael Stewart, Wharton, N.J.
In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, Edith Hall outlines 10 characteristics that she feels made the Greeks special. Professor Hall does not claim that the Greeks were first or best, but they put together many of the great advances in the area of the Mediterranean.聽聽