An illustrated pocket survey of the art, culture and history of ancient Greece. It opens with a series of magnificent reconstructions of the palace at Knossos and proceeds to cover, in just 175 pages, the history of the Greeks from the Bronze Age through the Athenian Empire. With hundreds of color photographs of frescoes, mosaics, paintings, sculpture and metal work. A volume in the acclaimed "Discoveries" series.  (GRE124, $12.95)