Robin Waterfield

Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens (eBook, ePUB)

A History of Ancient Greece

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"We Greeks are one in blood and one in language; we have temples to the gods and religious rites in common, and a common way of life." Herodotus Throughout the course of ancient Greek civilization, there always existed a sense of shared culture among the many Greek communities scattered throughout the Mediterranean. During the Classical (479-338) and Hellenistic (338-30) periods, the countless individual poleis of the Archaic period gradually came together in leagues and alliances, and finally were more or less united when they fell under the Roman empire. But what is fascinating about this process is how much resistance there was to it. The Greeks found it impossible to unify when faced with common enemies. Even under Roman rule the Greek cities still bickered. Acts of union - going back to the legendary Trojan War - were widely celebrated, but made little practical difference. If the Greeks knew that they were kin, why is Greek history so often the history of their internecine wars and other forms of competition with one another? This is the question acclaimed historian Robin Waterfield sets out to explore in Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens. This extraordinary contradiction - the recognition that they were all Greeks, but the deep-seated reluctance to unify - is at the heart of this ambitious new history. The culmination of a lifetime of research, Waterfield gives a comprehensive account of seven hundred years, from the emergence of the Greeks around 750 BCE to the downfall of the last of the Greco-Macedonian kingdoms in 30 BCE, looking at political, military, social, and cultural history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Seitenzahl: 527
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191043765
• Artikelnr.: 53237908

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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