We live in ancient Greece. Encyclopedia for children. Dubrovsky A.

It seems that we know everything about ancient Greece. The Greeks fought with the Persians, told stories about the gods and heroes that we call myths, built temples and invented the Olympic Games. The history of Hellas, as the ancient Greeks called their homeland, every schoolboy passes, and everyone at least once, and had to hear: Greece is the cradle of European civilization. Indeed, democracy, theater, philosophy, sports competitions, mathematics and astronomy - and this is not the whole list! - Everything is from ancient Greece.

But how did it happen that little Greece with a dry climate, divided by mountains into tiny shreds of land suitable for agriculture and residence, managed to create in art, science, sports, Politics - yes in anything! - What does the whole world still use? Not a single school textbook will give an answer to this question, but this book will still try. She will explain why Greece is not one, but many small states, how the new weapons of soldiers became a stronghold of democracy, why we find Greek traces from Italy and France to the coast of the Black Sea, and what prompted the Hellenes to go on such distant travels? >

The author of the book, the famous historian and writer Andrei Dubrovsky, excitingly and accessibly tells us about the main events in the history of this amazing ancient civilization, and about the daily life of its inhabitants: in which houses they lived, that they ate for lunch, as well as Where they studied, what they read and what they were treated. This complete picture of the life of the Hellenes, where even such a seemingly trifle, size of the shield turns out to be important, allows readers to see the interconnection of events, and to understand how, after all, ancient Greece managed to become a “cradle of European civilization”.