Persephone's Cave: Cultural Accumulations of the Early Greeks
by Baker, Howard
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good, Slight Chips
- ISBN 10
- 0820304387
- ISBN 13
- 9780820304380
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About This Item
Athens GA: University of Georgia Press, 1979 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st US Ed... A wide-ranging speculative bookstarting with developments in ancient Greece " Its chapters are centered upon the tunnel of Eupalinus, Ionian architecture, modern Samos, and such cultural heroes as Pythagoras, Aesop, and Eudoxus of Cnidus; but the declared subject of each chapter is the hub of a wheel with spokes going in all the directions of the early Greek experiment: ship-building, religion, poetry, historiography, sculpture, commerce, fable, drama, medicine, mathematics, astrology, coinage, mythology, city- planning."335p. illus maps bibliography index. maps on endpapers. Author inscription on ffep..
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- Bookseller
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33281
- Title
- Persephone's Cave: Cultural Accumulations of the Early Greeks
- Author
- Baker, Howard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good, Slight Chips
- Edition
- 1st US Ed..
- ISBN 10
- 0820304387
- ISBN 13
- 9780820304380
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Place of Publication
- Athens GA
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- ANCIENT GREECE SCIENCE PHILOSOPHY GREEK
- Bookseller catalogs
- Greece - Ancient; Greek Civilization; Greek Science & Technology;
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