A fascinating, accessible, and up-to-date history of the Ancient Greeks. Covering the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods, and centred around the disunity of the Greeks, their underlying cultural unity, and their eventual political unification.
A fascinating, accessible, and up-to-date history of the Ancient Greeks. Covering the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods, and centred around the disunity of the Greeks, their underlying cultural unity, and their eventual political unification.
Robin Waterfield is an independent scholar, living in southern Greece. In addition to more than twenty-five translations of works of Greek literature, he is the author of numerous books, most recently Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire (2011) and Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece (2014), also published by Oxford University Press.
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Preface and Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Maps Chronology and King Lists Introduction I: Historical Background Introduction II: Environmental Background ACT I: The Archaic Period (c. 750-480): The Formation of States 1: The Emergence of the Greeks in the Mediterranean 2: Aristocracy and the Archaic State 3: The Archaic Greek World 4: Early Athens 5: The Democratic Revolution 6: Sparta 7: Greek Religion 8: The Persian Wars 9: The Greeks at War ACT II: The Classical Period (479-323): A Tale, Mainly, of Two Cities 10: The Delian League 11: The Economy of Greece 12: Athens in the Age of Pericles 13: Women, Sexuality, and Family Life 14: The Peloponnesian War 15: The Insatiability of ASyracuse 16: Socrates and the Thirty Tyrants 17: The Futility of War 18: The Macedonian Conquest 19: Alexander the Great ACT III: The Hellenistic Period (323-30): Greeks, Macedonians, and Romans 20: The Successor Kingdoms 21: A Time of Adjustment 22: The Greek Cities in the New World 23: Social Life and Intellectual Culture 24: The Roman Conquest 25: A Feat of Imagination Glossary Recommended Reading Index
Preface and Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Maps Chronology and King Lists Introduction I: Historical Background Introduction II: Environmental Background ACT I: The Archaic Period (c. 750-480): The Formation of States 1: The Emergence of the Greeks in the Mediterranean 2: Aristocracy and the Archaic State 3: The Archaic Greek World 4: Early Athens 5: The Democratic Revolution 6: Sparta 7: Greek Religion 8: The Persian Wars 9: The Greeks at War ACT II: The Classical Period (479-323): A Tale, Mainly, of Two Cities 10: The Delian League 11: The Economy of Greece 12: Athens in the Age of Pericles 13: Women, Sexuality, and Family Life 14: The Peloponnesian War 15: The Insatiability of ASyracuse 16: Socrates and the Thirty Tyrants 17: The Futility of War 18: The Macedonian Conquest 19: Alexander the Great ACT III: The Hellenistic Period (323-30): Greeks, Macedonians, and Romans 20: The Successor Kingdoms 21: A Time of Adjustment 22: The Greek Cities in the New World 23: Social Life and Intellectual Culture 24: The Roman Conquest 25: A Feat of Imagination Glossary Recommended Reading Index
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