We often think of the Civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome as discrete incubators of Western culture, places where ideas about everything from government to art to philosophy were free to develop and then be distributed outward into the wider Mediterranean world.
Telling the stories of the.
All around them were rural communities who had remarkably different cultures, ones few of us know anything about.
But as Peter Bogucki reminds us in this book, Greece and Rome did not develop in isolation.
We often think of the Civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome as discrete incubators of Western culture, places where ideas about everything from government to art to philosophy were free to develop and then be distributed outward into the wider Mediterranean world
