Entertaining Greece. Stories about ancient Greek culture. Gasparov M.

The name of Academician Gasparov is a whole era in the study of antiquity: a lot of research, translations of Greek and Roman poets and writers, and, finally, “Entertaining Greece. Stories about ancient Greek culture ”, which has become a bestseller, a table book in every reading family. Mikhail Leonovich was smart, but not submissions, he knew how to write “entertaining”, interesting for adults and children. This book is a kind of encyclopedia of ancient Greek culture, from which the whole New European and Russian culture grew. In six parts of the book (from the 9th to the 2nd century BC), politics, life, and military art, and philosophy, theater, and poetry are considered - all in inextricable connection with each other and with the era. The style of presentation continues the tradition of ancient books about the “memorable words and actions” of great people.