Buy this book on-line Baker, Howard : Persephone's Cave: Cultural Accumulations of the Early GreeksUniv. Of Georgia Press, Athens, 1979 ISBN 0820304387
335pp. B&W Illustrations. Claims to be an unusual and speculative book. 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, 8vo, Fine in Fine DJ Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Baker, Howard : Persephone's Cave: Cultural Accumulations of the Early Greeks. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Baker, Howard : Persephone's Cave: Cultural Accumulations of the Early GreeksUniversity of Georgia Press, Athens GA, 1979 ISBN 0820304387
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.. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good, Slight Chips Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Baker, Howard : Persephone's Cave: Cultural Accumulations of the Early Greeks. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including antiquarian books, livres illustrées, livres d'occasion, rare books and out-of-print books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |