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Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- FOREWORD LOOKING BACKWARD -- Reinventing Ancient Greek Civilization -- Ancient Greece in Perspective: Time -- Ancient Greece in Perspective: Space -- Zetemata: Questions for Discussion -- Recommended for Further Reading -- Suggested Internet Resources -- 1 THE GREEKS AND THE BRONZE AGE -- Cycladic Civilization -- Minoan Civilization -- The Greeks Speak Up -- The Emergence of Mycenaean Civilization -- The Character of Mycenaean Civilization -- The End of Mycenaean Civilization -- Zetemata: Questions for Discussion -- Recommended for Further Reading |
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Suggested Internet Resources -- 2 IRON AGE GREECE -- Dark Age Ceramic Ware -- The Invention of the Alphabet -- The Age of Expansion -- The Polis -- The Olympic Games -- Zetemata: Questions for Discussion -- Recommended for Further Reading -- Suggested Internet Resources -- 3 THE POEMS OF HESIOD AND HOMER -- The Poems of Hesiod -- The Development of Hero Cult -- The Poems of Homer -- Zetemata: Questions for Discussion -- Recommended for Further Reading -- Suggested Internet Resources -- 4 POETRY AND SCULPTURE OF THE ARCHAIC PERIOD -- The Human Figure in Archaic Art |
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Lyric Poetry of Archaic Greece -- Zetemata: Questions for Discussion -- Recommended for Further Reading -- Suggested Internet Resources -- 5 SYMPOSIA, SEALS, AND CERAMICS IN THE ARCHAIC PERIOD -- The Symposium -- Seals -- Tyranny -- Ceramics -- Zetemata: Questions for Discussion -- Recommended for Further Reading -- Suggested Internet Resources -- 6 THE BIRTH OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE PERSIAN WARS -- Miletus and the Beginnings of Philosophy -- The Agora -- The Ionian Revolt (499-494 BC) -- The Persian Wars: Marathon -- The Persian Wars: Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea |
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Zetemata: Questions for Discussion -- Recommended for Further Reading -- Suggested Internet Resources -- 7 SETTING THE STAGE FOR DEMOCRACY -- The Development of Spartan Oligarchy -- The Development of Democracy in Athens: Solon -- Other Persons: Slavery and Democracy -- The Development of Democracy in Athens: Cleisthenes -- Ostracism -- The Delian League -- The Dionysia and the Drama of Aeschylus -- Zetemata: Questions for Discussion -- Recommended for Further Reading -- Suggested Internet Resources -- 8 HISTORY AND TRAGEDY IN THE FIFTH CENTURY -- Herodotus and the Invention of History |
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Books and Readers -- Sophocles -- Other Persons: Women and Athenian Democracy -- Zetemata: Questions for Discussion -- Recommended for Further Reading -- Suggested Internet Resources -- 9 THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR: A TALE OF THUCYDIDES -- Thucydides and the Writing of the Peloponnesian War -- Diagnosis and Prognosis -- The Invention of "the Classical" -- Zetemata: Questions for Discussion -- Recommended for Further Reading -- Suggested Internet Resources -- 10 STAGE AND LAW COURT IN LATE FIFTH-CENTURY ATHENS -- Euripides -- Aristophanes -- Socrates -- Zetemata: Questions for Discussion |
| Summary |
The third edition of Ancient Greek Civilization is a concise, engaging introduction to the history and culture of ancient Greece from the Minoan civilization to the age of the Roman Empire.-Explores the evolution and development of Greek art, literature, politics, and thought across history, as well as the ways in which these were affected by Greek interaction with other cultures -Now includes additional illustrations and maps, updated notes and references throughout, and an expanded discussion of the Hellenistic period -Weaves the latest scholarship and archeological excavations into the narrative at an appropriate level for undergraduates |
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Print version record |
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History.
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History
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history (discipline)
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
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History
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Electronic books
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1119098149 |
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9781119098140 |
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9781119098126 |
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1119098122 |
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