Ancient Greece : a political, social, and cultural history
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Ancient Greece : a political, social, and cultural history
Oxford University Press, 2012
3rd ed
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History is a comprehensive and balanced history, covering the political, military, social, cultural, and economic history of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Era.
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- A Bird's-Eye View of Greek History
- Sources: How We Know About the Greeks
- Retrieving the Past: The Material Record
- Retrieving the Past: The Written Record
- Periodization
- Frogs Around a Pond
- City-States
- Greek City-States
- I. EARLY GREECE AND THE BRONZE AGE
- Domestication
- Sources for Early Greek History
- The Land of Greece
- Greece and the Near East in the "Final Neolithic" Period (c. 4000-3000 BC)
- Greece in the Early and Middle Bronze Ages (c. 3000-1600 BC)
- Minoan Civilization
- Greece and the Aegean in the Late Bronze Age (1600-1200 BC)
- The Years of Glory (c. 1400-1200 BC)
- The End of the Mycenaean Civilization
- II. THE "DARK AGE" OF GREECE AND THE EIGHTH-CENTURY "RENAISSANCE" (C. 1200-750/700 BC)
- Sources for the Dark Age
- Decline and Recovery (c. 1200-900 BC)
- The New Society of the Dark Age
- Revival (c. 900-750 BC)
- Homer and Oral Poetry
- Late Dark Age (Homeric) Society
- Community, Household, and Economy in the Late Dark Age
- The End of the Dark Age (c. 750-700 BC)
- III. ARCHAIC GREECE (C. 750/700-480 BC)
- Sources for the Seventh and Sixth Centuries
- The Formation of the City-State (Polis)
- The Ethnos
- Government in the Early City-States
- The Colonizing Movement
- Economic and Social Divisions in the Early Poleis
- Hesiod: The View from Below
- The Hoplite Army
- The Archaic Age Tyrants
- Art and Architecture
- Lyric Poetry
- Philosophy and Science
- Panhellenic Institutions
- Relations Among States
- IV. SPARTA
- Sources for Spartan History and Institutions
- The Dark Age and the Archaic Period
- The Spartan System
- Demography and the Spartan Economy
- Spartan Government
- Sparta and Greece
- Historical Change in Sparta
- The Spartan Mirage in Western Thought
- V. THE GROWTH OF ATHENS AND THE PERSIAN WARS
- Sources for Early Athens
- Athens from the Bronze Age to the Early Archaic Age
- The Reforms of Solon
- Pisistratus and His Sons
- The Reforms of Cleisthenes
- The Rise of Persia
- The Wars Between Greece and Persia
- The Other War: Carthage and the Greek Cities of Sicily
- VI. THE RIVALRIES OF THE GREEK CITY-STATES AND THE GROWTH OF ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY
- Sources for the Decades After the Persian Wars
- The Aftermath of the Persian Wars and the Foundation of the Delian League
- The "First" (Undeclared) Peloponnesian War (460-445 BC)
- Pericles and the Growth of Athenian Democracy
- Literature and Art
- Oikos and Polis
- The Greek Economy
- VII. GREECE ON THE EVE OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
- Sources for Greece on the Eve of the War
- Greece After the Thirty Years' Peace
- The Breakdown of the Peace
- Resources for War
- Intellectual Life in Fifth-Century Greece
- Historical and Dramatic Literature of the Fifth Century
- Currents in Greek Thought and Education
- The Physical Space of the Polis: Athens on the Eve of War
- VIII. THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
- Sources for Greece During the Peloponnesian War
- The Archidamian War (431-421 BC)
- The Rise of Comedy
- Between Peace and War 340
- The Invasion of Sicily (415-413 BC)
- The War in the Aegean and the Oligarchic Coup at Athens (413-411 BC)
- Fallout from the Long War
- The War in Retrospect
- IX. THE CRISIS OF THE POLIS AND THE AGE OF SHIFTING HEGEMONIES
- Sources for Fourth-Century Greece
- Postwar Greece and the Struggle for Hegemony
- Law and Democracy in Athens
- The Fourth-Century Polis
- Philosophy and the Polis
- X. PHILIP II AND THE RISE OF MACEDON
- Sources for Macedonian History
- Early Macedonia
- Macedonian Society and Kingship
- The Reign of Philip II
- Macedonian Domination of Greece
- XI. ALEXANDER THE GREAT
- Sources for the Reign of Alexander
- Consolidating Power
- From Issus to Egypt: Conquest of the Eastern Mediterranean (332-331 BC)
- From Alexandria to Persepolis: The King of Asia (331-330 BC)
- The High Road to India: Alexander in Central Asia
- India and the End of the Dream
- Return to the West
- XII. ALEXANDER'S SUCCESSORS AND THE COSMOPOLIS
- A New World
- Sources for the Hellenistic Period
- The Struggle for the Succession
- The Regency of Perdiccas
- The Primacy of Antigonus the One-Eyed
- Birth Pangs of the New Order (301-276 BC)
- The Place of the Polis in the Cosmopolis
- The Macedonian Kingdoms
- Hellenistic Society
- Alexandria and Hellenistic Culture
- Social Relations in the Hellenistic World
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