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Title of Vintage Book: The Story of Civilization - The Life of Greece ***Being a history of Greek civilization from the beginnings, and of civilization in the Near East from the death of Alexander, to the Roman conquest; with an introduction on the prehistoric culture of Crete
*** LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT!
Author(s): Will Durant
Publisher: Simon and Schuster - New York
Year of Publication: 1939
Edition: 1st/First
Ex-Library Volume: NO
Total of Numbered Pages: 754
Size: just over 7"W x nearly 10"H
Format: Hard Cover
Dust Jacket: N/A
Condition: EXCELLENT
*Cover/Exterior - evinces only very faint shelf/edge wear and surface handling; outer edges of pages evince a smattering of brown spots which are NOT on the interior portions of the pages
*Binding/Spine - tightly intact
*Interior Contents - crisply clean pages evince no noted foxing, markings, water damage, staining, or odors of any kind, with only noted writings being a smattering of pencil bracketing/underlining of some text and a personalized inscribed gift inscription on the end page opposite the inside front cover; there is also a personalized Book Plate on the reverse blank side of that same page "The Dilworths"; a handful of pages have some upper/lower corner folds
CONTENTS:
***BOOK I - AEGEAN PRELUDE - 3500-1000 B.C.
*CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE:
*I - CRETE
*II - BEFORE AGAMEMNON
*III - THE HEROIC AGE
***BOOK II - THE RISE OF GREECE - 1000-480 B.C.
*CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
*IV - SPARTA
*V - ATHENS
*VI - THE GREAT MIGRATION
*VII - THE GREEKS IN THE WEST
*VIII - THE GODS OF GREECE
*IX - THE COMMON CULTURE OF EARLY GREECE
*X - THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM
***BOOK III - THE GOLDEN AGE - 480-399 B.C.
*CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
*XI - PERICLES AND THE DEMOCRATIC EXPERIMENT
*XII - WORK AND WEALTH IN ATHENS
*XIII - THE MORALS AND MANNERS OF THE ATHENIANS
*XIV - THE ART OF PERICLEAN GREECE
*XV - THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING: The Mathematicians. Anaxagoras. Hippocrates
*XVI - THE CONFLICT OF PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
*XVII - THE LITERATURE OF THE GOLDEN AGE
*XVIII - THE SUICIDE OF GREECE
***BOOK IV - THE DECLINE AND FALL OF GREEK FREEDOM - 399-322 B.C.
*CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
*XIX - PHILIP
*XX - LETTERS AND ARTS IN THE FOURTH CENTURY
*XXI - THE ZENITH OF PHILOSOPHY
*XXII - ALEXANDER
***BOOK V - THE HELLENISTIC DISPERSION - 322-146 B.C.
*CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
*XXIII - GREECE AND MACEDON
*XXIV - HELLENISM AND THE ORIENT
*XXV - EGYPT AND THE WEST
*XXVI - BOOKS
*XXVII - THE ART OF THE DISPERSION
*XXVIII - THE CLIMAX OF GREEK SCIENCE
*XXIX - THE SURRENDER OF PHILOSOPHY
*XXX - THE COMING OF ROME
***EPILOGUE - OUR GREEK HERITAGE
***GLOSSARY OF FOREIGN WORDS
***BIBLIOGRAPHY
***NOTES
***PRONOUNCING AND BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX
ILLUSTRATIONS:
*Hygiaea, Goddess of Health
*The Cup-Bearer
*The "Snake Goddess"
*Wall Fresco and "Throne of Minos"
*A Cup from Vaphio
*Mask of "Agamemnon"
*Warrior, from temple of Aphaea at Aegina
*Theater of Epidaurus
*Temple of Poseidon
*A Krater Vase, with Athena and Heracles
*The Portland Vase
*The Francois Vase
*A Kore, or Maiden
*The "Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo"
*Pericles
*Epicurus
*Orpheus, Eurydice, and Hermes
*"Birth of Aphrodite"
*"Ludovisi Throne," right base
*"Ludovisi Throne," left base
*The Diadumenos
*Apollo Sauroctonos
*The Discus Thrower
*The "Dreaming Athena"
*The Rape of the Lapith Bride
*Stela of Damasistrate
*Heracles and Atlas
*Nike Fixing Her Sandal
*Propylae and temple of Nike Apteros
*The Charioteer of Delphi
*A Caryatid from the Erechtheum
*The Parthenon
*Goddesses and "Iris"
*"Cecrops and Daughter"
*Horsemen, from the West Frieze of the Parthenon
*Sophocles
*Demosthenes
*A Tanagra Statuette
*The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
*Relief from the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
*The "Aphrodite of Cnidus"
*The Nike of Paepnius
*The Hermes of Praxiteles
*Head of Praxiteles’ Hermes
*The Doryphoros of Polycleitus
*Head of Meleager
*Head of a Girl
*The Apoxyomenos
*The Raging (or Dancing) Maenad
*A Daughter of Niobe
*The Aphrodite of Cyrene
*The Demeter of Cnidus
*Altar of Zeus at Pergamum
*Frieze from the Altar of Zeus at Pergamum
*The Battle of Issus
*The Laocoon
*The Farnese Bull
*The "Alexander" Sarcophagus
*The Aphrodite of Melos
*The Venus de’ Medici
*The "Victory of Samothrace"
*Hellenistic Portrait Head
*The "Old Market Woman"
*The Prize Fighter
***Maps of the Hellenistic World, Ancient Greece and the Aegean, and Ancient Italy and Sicily will be found on the inside covers
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