We live in Ancient Greece. Encyclopedia for children

It seems that we know everything about Ancient Greece. The Greeks fought against the Persians, told stories about gods and heroes, which we call myths, built temples, and invented the Olympic Games. Every schoolchild studies the history of Hellas, as the ancient Greeks called their homeland, and everyone has at least once heard that Greece is the cradle of European civilization. Indeed, democracy, theater, philosophy, sports competitions, mathematics, and astronomy – and this is by no means the entire list! – all originated from Ancient Greece.
But how did it happen that tiny Greece with its dry climate, divided by mountains into tiny patches of land suitable for agriculture and habitation, managed to create in art, science, sports, politics – in everything! – what the whole world still uses today? No school textbook can answer this question, yet this book will try. It will explain why Greece is not one, but many small states, how new weapons for warriors became the bulwark of democracy, why we find Greek traces from Italy and France to the shores of the Black Sea, and what prompted the Hellenes to embark on such long journeys?
The author of the book, renowned historian and writer Andrei Dubrovsky, fascinatingly and accessibly narrates both the key events in the history of this amazing ancient civilization and the everyday life of its inhabitants: what kind of houses they lived in, what they ate for lunch, how and where they studied, what they read, and how they treated themselves. This complete picture of the life of the Hellenes, where even such seemingly minor details as the size of a shield are important, allows readers to see the interconnection of events and understand how Ancient Greece managed to become the "cradle of European civilization".