Maurice Sartre works here directly with the raw materials of ancient history. He conveys viscerally the excitement of studying the ancient world and, with so much new documentation, shows that our knowledge is being constantly enlarged and changed.
   --Glen W. Bowersock, author of Mosaics as History

Sartre's book is a lively, vigorous, entertaining, and informative survey of a number of aspects of ancient Greek history over the course of about twelve centuries, from the period of the foundations of Greek cities in the 9th-8th centuries BC to the murder of Hypatia in Alexandria in 415 AD.
   --Glenn Most, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa / University of Chicago

Maurice Sartre is Professor of History, University of Tours and the Institut Universitaire de France.

Read More by Maurice Sartre:

• The Middle East under Rome
• East & West: Papers in Ancient History Presented to Glen W. Bowersock

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• Absent without Leave: French Literature under the Threat of War
• We Have Never Been Modern
• Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge
• The Greek Pursuit of Knowledge
• A Guide to Greek Thought: Major Figures and Trends
• Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy
• The Middle East under Rome