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Title: Far from the best
Review: I honestly do not understand the accolades this book has received. From the start , Fox gushes how the Greeks invented politics, history, ethics, theater and writing about human drama...no one asked a philosphical question before the Greeks...come on Mr Fox!...what about the ancient Egyptians, Hebrews, and other Asian societies? Did the Greeks invent fire, the wheel, agriculture as well? The book reads like a high school textbook- grandiose, superfluous,wordy, out of focus. Many reviewers applaud Fox's psychological insight. I never saw this. For true psychological insight, as well as lucid writing and thoughtful conjecture, read Peter Green's Alexander the Great. The photographs in Fox's book will serve as a useful complement.
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