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In a strip of broken coastline and stony islands, between roughly 800 and 300 BCE, a constellation of small cities produced the philosophical, political, and aesthetic categories that the rest of the West has been arguing about ever since. Key sections include: Hellas.; Opening The Greek miracle.; Chapter I The Bronze Age palaces.; Chapter II Homer.; Chapter III The polis.; Chapter IV Solon and the seisachtheia.; Chapter V Cleisthenes invents democracy.; Chapter VI Sparta.; Chapter VII The Persian Wars: Marathon.; Chapter VIII Thermopylae and Salamis..
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