Instead of the normal chronological approach, Spivey and Squire have organised their subject thematically, analysing the ideas and values that lie beneath the history: the centrality of the body in life and death; society, sexuality, gender and family; hygiene and diet; the worship of gods and admiration for heros; attitudes to nature and the enviroment; money and economic life; war and rebellion; and politics, in theory and in fact. All this brings Greeks, Etruscans and Romans to vivid life, with 590 illustrations, 400 in colour...