"[1] Peter Walcot's review for Greece & Rome felt that the pictures were wonderful, but the text he found disappointing: "[The book], like its predecessors in the 'New Horizons' series, is a translation from the French and, more importantly, most imaginatively illustrated and inexpensively priced.

"[2] The Belgian historian Didier Viviers [fr] wrote in the journal L’Antiquité classique [de]: "The reading of this book is warmly recommended to students and to any Greek history lover, from the Bronze Age to the 4th century BC.

Remarkable synthesis, which goes to the essential; here is finally, one would be tempted to write, a work of popularization which does not content itself with presenting a succession of historical facts.

The reader discovers, with enormous intellectual satisfaction, a coherent thought, which makes us experience the birth of the city and highlights the fruitful originality of Greek society.

This fruitfulness is emphasized not only by the text, which concludes with the debt of our system of thought to this ancient civilization, but also by the illustration, the side-by-side arrangement of Classical and Neoclassical artworks, as if to remind us also of Greece's place in the imagination of later centuries.