He describes the culture and influence of the Athenians with great admiration.Ĭhapters 10-11 turn to the East, as Gombrich frames the ancient worlds of India and China through the lives of significant people: the Buddha, Confucius, and Lao-tzu. He introduces his history of the Greeks by telling the story of a 19th-century businessman who believed, when no one else did, that Homer’s stories of Troy were real, emphasizing his intent for the reader to find the same fascination and intrigue in history that they do in stories. In Chapters 7-9, Gombrich delves into the history of Ancient Greece and its conflicts with Persia. While each of these societies had its own unique culture and history, Gombrich emphasizes their shared influence on today’s world by describing what they left behind, including monuments, religion, writing, technology, and more. He then dedicates Chapters 3-6 to some of the earliest and most impactful early civilizations: the Egyptians, the Mesopotamians, the Jews, and the Phoenicians. Gombrich begins A Little History of the World by laying out how the foundations of human society were built by the innovative Prehistoric humans.
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