Freedom
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Freedom

Clear Thinking and Inspiration from 5,000 Years of Greek History

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eBook - ePub

Freedom

Clear Thinking and Inspiration from 5,000 Years of Greek History

About this book

In this book, Vallianatos paints a picture of freedom in Greek history and civilization. Freedom for the Greeks, he says, has been like breathing air. He documents how freedom gave birth to the great achievements of Greek civilization. The Greeks repeated

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Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Praise for Freedom
  3. Half Title
  4. Full Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Prologue: The Greek Passion for Freedom
  9. Chapter 1: The Golden Fleece—Mythology, History, and Early Greek Civilization
  10. Chapter 2: The Greeks and their Gods
  11. Chapter 3: Neolithic and Bronze Age
  12. Chapter 4: From Chaos to Cosmos and Cosmology
  13. Chapter 5: Homer—the Teacher of the Greeks
  14. Chapter 6: The Iliad
  15. Chapter 7: The Odyssey
  16. Chapter 8: The Persian Wars
  17. Chapter 9: The Theater of Dionysos
  18. Chapter 10: The Peloponnesian War
  19. Chapter 11: Olympics for the Gods
  20. Chapter 12: Aristotle, Alexander the Great, and the Glory of Greek Civilization
  21. Chapter 13: Medieval Decline and Fall
  22. Chapter 14: The Mongol Turks and Other Enemies
  23. Chapter 15: Ioannes Kapodistrias, the First President of Modern Greece
  24. Chapter 16: The Parthenon—the Soul of Greece
  25. Chapter 17: War on the Classics
  26. Chapter 18: The Waterboarding of Greece
  27. Chapter 19: Lessons of Greek History
  28. Epilogue: Rainbow Bridges to the Greeks
  29. Acknowledgment
  30. Bibliographical Note
  31. Bibliography
  32. Index