Roots of Ancient Greek Civilization

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Roots of Ancient Greek Civilization is written by Harald Haarmann and published by McFarland. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0786478276 (ISBN 10) and 9780786478279 (ISBN 13).

Contrary to a prevalent belief of the Western world, that democracy, agriculture, theater and the arts were the attainments of Classical Greek civilization, these were actually a Bronze Age fusion of earlier European concepts and Hellenic ingenuity. This work considers both the multicultural wellspring from which these ideas flowed and their ready assimilation by the Greeks, who embraced these hallmarks of civilization, and refined them to the level of sophistication that defines classical antiquity.