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THE STORY OF GREECE AND ROME - TONY SPAWFORTH K...

The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome  spanning
more than six millennia from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century. The magnificent
civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical
world. However  narratives about the civilized Greek and Roman empires resisting the barbarians
at the gate are far from accurate. Tony Spawforth  an esteemed scholar  author  and media
contributor  follows the thread of civilization through more than six millennia of history. His
story reveals that Greek and Roman civilization  to varying degrees  was supremely and
surprisingly receptive to external influences  particularly from the East. From the rise of the
Mycenaean world of the sixteenth century B.C.  Spawforth traces a path through the ancient
Aegean to the zenith of the Hellenic state and the rise of the Roman empire  the coming of
Christianity and the consequences of the first caliphate. Deeply informed  provocative  and
entirely fresh  this is the first and only accessible work that tells the extraordinary story
of the classical world in its entirety.

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