Ancient Greece book related to the philosophy and history by Don Nardo are always interesting and thought to provoke. He always tried to elaborate the historical events in different ways. He really tried to present original and factual evidence. This book is also about the history of Greek, its traditions, festivals, practices, beliefs, and culture. He defined that Greece was not ever a united country in its ancient times. Their systems were somehow alike with the tribal systems that are why there was repeated and regular fights among Greeks at that times in among different cities. With the help of this book, I have got various perspectives after learn about the Greek evolution of conflicts and battles in this immensely enjoyable and enlightening book.
The evolution of the warfare in the society was obviously due to the great minds, philosophers, and thinkers of Greeks. It is evident that the western society of the current era is indebted to the Greeks for the philosophical and sociological foundations of Greek thinkers. Don Nardo described various methods and policies of the warfare of that time, in the chapter “Bronze Swords”. Development of weapons to conquest the enemy also converses in the chapter “Charging Chariots and Epaminondas”. In this chapter, he also discussed the revolution and advancement in the Military Strategies and Greek Warships about their Squads of wars. These chapters cover the boxes of particulars and statistics that address the particular subjects in better detail, which is also very accommodating to comprehend the Greek History such as “The Slaughter at Salamis”, “Hellenistic Fortifications” and “Traditional Hoplite Rituals”.
This book illustrated the maps and numerous intricate battle tactics and policies to show pleasingly in black-and-white pictures while photographs of ancient artifacts appeared rather dull. This book is amazing for the antagonistic history scholars and other individuals who wanted to be acquainted with about Greek history in the easiest way.
Don Nardo is also a historian and written many books, research papers and articles about the ancient Greeks, their cultures, traditions, social behaviors, and social structure and supposed to argue about everything of any emerging society of that Ancient Greece.
The author has organized the historical events in comprehensive thematic and consecutive chapters in many divisions of the book. He conversed about the political issues in the chapter “Lawgivers and Political Experimentation”. He conferred the Geeks political system and policies, and elaborate the Senate structure of the Athens for the reason that it was the capital of the Greek at that times. By discussing the military approach in the chapter “The Athenians Crush the Persians at Marathon” he told about the various warriors of Greece, i.e. Hercules and Alexander, etc. In this way, one can discover the military approaches of the Greeks. They were great subjugators of that time. Alexander the Great prevailed half of the world. In a chapter, i.e. “Alexander’s Brilliance as a Leader”, he discussed the numerous battles of the Greeks.
The communal system of the Greeks are discussed in precise detail that is in the chapter, “The Hellenistic Age Brings Increased Opportunities for Women”, he established that there was a time when women have conquered the society in many techniques. By studied the cultural characteristics in the chapter, “The Great Age of Greek Lyric Poetry”, and one may found the historical civilizations of the Greeks. It is obvious that they had an extraordinary history in art and literature. Furthermost, the current books about the Greek antiquities are written by contemporary scholars, but their standpoints are also shed by the chronological personalities and thinkers such as Plato, Thucydides, and Plutarch.
He explored basically every aspect and cause of this historical epoch, including food, i.e. irrigation systems and economic structures, how they held stability in demand and supply, and the attitude of the athletic groups. Don Nardo firmly proves that his point of view is much advanced as the modern world and thankful to ancient Greece. Unluckily, sometimes the accumulative effect of his work appears like the embodiment of a dry literature and textbook he presented. His countenance is quite persuasive and dryness in his book is because of the historical occasions. There are few individuals who would be attracted to the history.
While his selections of occasions and characters are pertinent and have important importance. Sometimes the performance has the negligible importance and attracting the students and those people who are interested in history. On the other hand, with discontinuous black-and-white illustrations and images in the book providing little interruption for the reader. Even though, this book can be best positioned in adult reference books where scholars can take benefit of its appendicular arrangement of events, list of extended sites and charismas, gazetteer and thesaurus. Otherwise, only assortments with college-level requirements for exploration on these topic needed to give closer and deep consideration.
He presented an in-depth summary to various topics as much as for exploration and reference, every exploration and reference have large, thorough, well enlightened, accessible and elegant history of anthologies that encompassed more than 90 proceedings by renowned personalities in the area of philosophy and history. Those personalities described what took place and how those looked judgmentally about how events undergo to be assumed. His collections in the book and the way he ordered into chapters are very attractive. There are short outlines and summary on the subject’s pages, which have full synopses with each record. He used the widespread bibliographies in his manuscript. The text is clear typed, has dual columns per page, and is shifting with a number of subheads. Henceforth, Nardo’s books, indifference, is factually reliable and cover the historical topics with solicitous consideration to the organization to proceedings with proper stress on many events.
