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

“Entertaining Greece” by Mikhail Gasparov is the book with which it is worth starting to get acquainted with ancient Greek culture. Being, according to the author himself, the shift of “Greek history into jokes”, the book became a real bestseller.

Mikhail Gasparov tells us about the most interesting episodes from the history of Greece, Greek-Persian wars, gods, Sparta, Olympic Games , Athenian democracy, raising the most unexpected issues. For example, did Homer really die of grief, unable to solve the riddle? Why the Spartans were so illegible in food, and the Greek rulers are so gullible when the speech concerned the prophecies?

In this edition, the fascinating story of the largest specialist in antiquity is accompanied by numerous photographs of ancient Greek artifacts, works of fine arts and illustrations of Tatyana Payanskaya, which reflect the aesthetics of the culture of ancient Greece.