The Life of Greece
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The Life of Greece is a comprehensive historical and cultural survey of ancient Greek civilization written by American historian and philosopher Will Durant as part of his multi-volume series The Story of Civilization.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Life of Greece canonical | 8 |
| The Story of Civilization, Volume II: The Life of Greece | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10523404 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Life of Greece Context triple: [Will Durant, notableWork, The Life of Greece]
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A.
La Grèce inconnue
La Grèce inconnue is a travel and cultural study of lesser-known regions of Greece by Swiss writer Daniel Baud-Bovy, highlighting the country’s rural landscapes, traditions, and folklore.
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B.
Life of Cimon
Life of Cimon is one of Plutarch’s biographical essays in Parallel Lives, focusing on the life and character of the Athenian statesman and general Cimon.
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Description of Greece
"Description of Greece" is an ancient travelogue and cultural guide to mainland Greece, originally written in Greek by Pausanias in the 2nd century CE, detailing its geography, monuments, myths, and religious practices.
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Geschichte des Altertums
Geschichte des Altertums is a multi-volume scholarly history of the ancient world by German historian Eduard Meyer, renowned for its comprehensive and systematic treatment of ancient civilizations.
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The Physical World of the Greeks
The Physical World of the Greeks is a scholarly work that explores ancient Greek conceptions of nature, matter, and physical phenomena within the history of science.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Life of Greece Target entity description: The Life of Greece is a comprehensive historical and cultural survey of ancient Greek civilization written by American historian and philosopher Will Durant as part of his multi-volume series The Story of Civilization.
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A.
La Grèce inconnue
La Grèce inconnue is a travel and cultural study of lesser-known regions of Greece by Swiss writer Daniel Baud-Bovy, highlighting the country’s rural landscapes, traditions, and folklore.
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B.
Life of Cimon
Life of Cimon is one of Plutarch’s biographical essays in Parallel Lives, focusing on the life and character of the Athenian statesman and general Cimon.
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C.
Description of Greece
"Description of Greece" is an ancient travelogue and cultural guide to mainland Greece, originally written in Greek by Pausanias in the 2nd century CE, detailing its geography, monuments, myths, and religious practices.
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D.
Geschichte des Altertums
Geschichte des Altertums is a multi-volume scholarly history of the ancient world by German historian Eduard Meyer, renowned for its comprehensive and systematic treatment of ancient civilizations.
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E.
The Physical World of the Greeks
The Physical World of the Greeks is a scholarly work that explores ancient Greek conceptions of nature, matter, and physical phenomena within the history of science.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
history book
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non-fiction book ⓘ |
| author | Will Durant ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| coversPeriod |
Archaic Greece
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Classical Greece ⓘ Hellenistic period ⓘ Minoan civilization ⓘ Mycenaean civilization ⓘ |
| follows | Our Oriental Heritage ⓘ |
| genre |
cultural history
ⓘ
history ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | humanist ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | general readership ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Will Durant ⓘ |
| pages | 754 ⓘ |
| partOf | The Story of Civilization ⓘ |
| precedes | Caesar and Christ ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1939 ⓘ |
| publisher | Simon & Schuster ⓘ |
| series | The Story of Civilization ⓘ |
| seriesOrdinal | 2 ⓘ |
| structure | narrative history ⓘ |
| subject |
Greek civilization
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ancient Greece ⓘ
linked to:
Greek Antiquity
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| timeSpanCovered | from pre-Homeric Aegean cultures to the Roman conquest of Greece ⓘ |
| topic |
Greek art
ⓘ
Greek daily life ⓘ Greek literature ⓘ Greek philosophy ⓘ Greek politics ⓘ Greek religion ⓘ
linked to:
Ancient Greek religion
Greek science ⓘ |
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Subject: The Life of Greece Description of subject: The Life of Greece is a comprehensive historical and cultural survey of ancient Greek civilization written by American historian and philosopher Will Durant as part of his multi-volume series The Story of Civilization.
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linked to: The Life of Greece