The Greeks and their heritages / Arnold Toynbee
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1981. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #446726
ISBN: 0192152564
Physical description; x, 334 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-320) and index. Contents; Preface -- Note on spelling -- I. The influence of heritages from the past -- II. The Mycenean Greeks' successes and failures -- III. The Hellenic Greeks' heritage from the Mycenean Greeks -- IV. The Hellenic Greeks' successes and failures -- V. The Byzantine Greeks' heritage from the Hellenic Greeks -- VI. The Byzantine Greeks' successes and failures -- Economy -- The Byzantine Greek civilization's attractiveness and its limits -- Eastern Orthodox Christianity -- The incubus of the East Roman Empire -- The incubus of the Hellenic Paideia -- VII. The modern Greeks' heritage from the Byzantine Greeks -- VIII. The modern Greeks' heritage from the Hellenic Greeks -- IX. The modern Greeks' successes and failures -- The change in the Greeks' attitude towards the west -- The Greeks' successful engagement in the economic life of the modern world -- The modern limitations of the Greeks' freedom of choice between forms of political independence -- The Greek language's vicissitudes in the modern age -- X. Conclusion -- Appendix: The post-Mycenaean dark age -- Appendix I; Pou?plios' Graeco-Syrian monastery -- Appendix II: Victimized patriarchs -- Appnedix: George Yemisto?s Ple?thon's totalitarian Hellenism. Subjects; To 146 B.C. Hellenism. Civilization. Civilization, Greek. Greece History. Greece Civilization To 146 B.C. Greece Civilization.
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