Ancient Greece

If all the portable artefacts of Ancient Greece were in a single location, the lives students, historians and connoisseurs would be immeasurably simpler. This book presents nearly 200 objects currently housed in public collecttion around the world that offer insight into the rich culture of Ancient Greece.
From the bifacial hand tools of the Lower Paleolithic (300,000 years ago) to the Hellenistic Great Altar of Pergamon (2nd century BCE), the artefacts described here reflect the cyclical ups and downs of prosperity and poverty, and changing cultural and social from epoch to epoch. Beautifully illustrated with photographs of each featured object, this is an absorbing introduction to a culture that has exerted an unparalleled influence on Western civilization.