# The Birth of Classical Europe

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- Book: [The Birth of Classical Europe](https://www.bookquiver.com/simon-price/the-birth-of-classical-europe) ([The Birth of Classical Europe.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/simon-price/the-birth-of-classical-europe.md))
- Authors: [Simon Price](https://www.bookquiver.com/simon-price), [Peter Thonemann](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-thonemann)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4312-045-2
- Pages: 432
- Published: 2011-12-27
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

An innovative and intriguing look at the foundations of Western civilization from two leading historians; the first volume in the Penguin History of Europe The influence of ancient Greece and Rome can...