Eureka!: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks but Were Afraid to Ask

The Ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language they invented democracy, atomic theory and the rules of logic and geometry established artistic and architectural canons visible to this day on all our high streets laid the foundations of philosophy, history, tragedy and comedy and debated everything from the good life and the role of women, to making sense of foreigners and the best form of government, all in the most sophisticated terms.In Eureka Peter Jones, author of Veni, Vedi, Vici, tackles the gamut of Ancient Greece from the Trojan War to the advent of the Romans Along the way he introduces the major figures of the age, including Homer, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Euclid and Archimedes Exploring Greek myths he provides a glimpse of everyday life in ancient times and shows us the very foundations of Western culture In this thoroughly entertaining romp through the world of the Ancient Greeks, Peter will demonstrate just how much of our world finds its origins in theirs. Read Eureka!: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks but Were Afraid to Ask By Peter Jones – kino-fada.fr Does what it says on the cover 4 5 stars.This review was originally posted on my book blog.This review may beabout me and my relationship with non fiction than this specific book and for that I can only apologise.I try to read at least 2 non fiction books a year I m aware that 2 is a low number, but I tend to struggle with non fiction I find my attention wanders, mostly because I read far slower than I read fiction.Firstly, all credit for me having found and read this book must go to my Does what it says on the cover 4 5 stars.This review was originally posted on my book blog.This review may beabout me and my relationship with non fiction than this specific book and for that I can only apologise.I try to read at least 2 non fiction books a year I m aware that 2 is a low number, but I tend to struggle with non fiction I find my attention wanders, mostly because I read far slower than I read fiction.Firstly, all credit for me having found and read this book must go to my local library Their display stands of interesting non fiction books are the main reason I ever pick up non fiction.In a nutshell, my review of Eurekawould be if you have any interest in knowing about the Ancient Greeks, and would like the information in an easy to digest format, then I can t recommend this book enough.I li...Any book about a special topic aimed for a general audience will struggle with the balance between either going too much into detail and presuming too much foreknowledge, or being too general and so I assume reviews for this book vary greatly All I can say is that it fit me very well and that I liked it I came in with quite a lot of detail level knowledge about specific wars and eras, having taken a course in Attic Greek, and some general cloudy knowledge of the overall history With my fore Any book about a special topic aimed for a general audience will struggle with the balance between either going too much into detail and presuming...I knew that this would be a book aimed at complete newcomers but even so I didn t expect it to be as basic as it is Reallyof a coffee table book than anything else If I were recommending a book to beginners, I d suggest Thomas Martin s Ancient Greece instead.A very good introductory book in the topic of Ancient Greece I think it s a nice introduction, the kind of book you read before getting intoreading and research A lovely synthesis, focused on skimming the topics and also lo...In depth, at times humorous and engaging Jones book is almost a little too ambitious, trying to fit everything in and rapidly skimming through a weighty timeline which made me skip through it, missing out chunks that se...An entertaining and illuminating survey of the history of ancient Greece, why it matters, and how we know what we know about this dynamic and influential culture A great primer before divingdeeply into specific topics.A fun read with bitesize chunks of Ancient Greek history up to the Romans Ancient Greek culture and language still influence us today the Greeks birthed democracy although in a different hue than hours , many of our words stem from Greek terms, then of course there are the Olympic Games.The author covers many aspects of culture, language, history and myth in a manner which is easy to follow and gives enough of a taster to get the reader interested in the subject He s done his research too A fun read with bitesize chunks of Ancient Greek history up to the Romans Ancient Greek culture and language still influen...I found this a slightly odd book It s very bitty It covers a lot of breadth, but with sections a short as a third of page, there s very little in the way of depth I often found myself wantinginformation about a person, a topic or a war On the other hand, the very breadth is very useful for someone like me who has very little knowledge of ancient Greece If nothing else, the book got across the very fractured nature of Greece in this period very well The way the city states would con I found this a slightly odd book It s very bitty It covers a lot of breadth, but with sections a short as a third of page, there s very little in the way of depth I often found myself wantinginformation about a ...I have to agree with the majority of other reviews on Goodreads that dislike the disjointed and bitty nature of the information given At some points I felt rather confused about the time period or person being discussed as there were too many jumps between topics and people which made the book less enjoyable.However, I didn t rate this a 1 star read as I have learnt something and have enjoyed some of rather humerous tidbits and facts given by Peter Jones, but I wouldn t recommend this on the I have to agree with the majority of other reviews on Goodreads that dislike the disjointed and bitty nature of the information given At some points I felt...Interesting and lightly writtenThe book is a good overview of Greek history and culture but it can be a bit fragmentary and difficult to follow when the subject changes from paragraph to paragraph Helpful as an introduction to dip into before looking through the bibliography for next steps.

• English
• 08 March 2018
Peter Jones
• Hardcover
• 372 pages
• 1782395148
• Peter Jones
• Eureka!: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks but Were Afraid to Ask