Through essays which provide an historical context and a fine selection of 157 objects studied in detail – fully reproduced in colour – The Greeks. Art Treasures from the Benaki Museum, Athens provides a fascinating insight into the life and artistic production in the Greek world covering Hellenic antiquity, the transition from Graeco-Roman legacy to medieval Byzantium, the centuries it was under foreign rule to the intellectual awakening and the struggle for the formation of the Greek nation. The texts were written by Curators of the Benaki Museum.