Ancient Greece. Stories about Everyday Life

Modern European civilization owes much to Ancient Greece. Over its two-thousand-year history, the Greeks created a rational economic system based on the use of labor and natural resources, a civic social structure, a polis organization with a republican system, and a high culture that had a tremendous impact on the development of Roman and world culture.

In the proposed book, first published in 1912 under the title "A Book for Reading on Ancient History". Part I, it tells about the everyday, private, and public life of ancient Greece, outstanding statesmen, philosophers, writers, and military leaders. 

The reader will attend a citizens' assembly in Athens, become a participant in the conversations of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, learn many details of Greek life, and visit Olbia, one of the flourishing cities of Taurida.

Among the participants in this unusual project were future luminaries of Soviet historical science - N.A. Kun, V.N. Pertsev, S.I. Radtzig, A.A. Fortunatov, and others