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Classics scholar and writer Peter Jones explains who the Greeks were and tells their epic story, beginning with the Trojan War and ending with the rise of the Roman Empire. Jones introduces the major figures of the age, including Homer, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Euclid and Archimedes, explores what everyday life was like for the Ancient Greeks, and explains Greek myth and the role of the gods.

Jones taught classics at the universities of Cambridge and Newcastle before retiring. He writes a regular column, Ancient and Modern, in the Spectator and is author of several books on the Classics including the bestselling Learn Latin and Learn Ancient Greek, and Reading Virgil’s Aeneid I and II, Vote for Caesar and Veni, Vidi, Vici.