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Creators, conquerors, and citizens : a history of ancient Greece / Robin Waterfield.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018. Edition: First editionDescription: xxi, 511 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780198727880
  • 0198727887
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 938 23
LOC classification:
  • DF214 .W38 2018
Contents:
Introduction I: Environmental background -- Introduction II: Historical background -- ACT I: The Archaic Period (750-480) : the formation of states -- The emergence of the Greeks -- Aristocracy and the archaic state -- The archaic Greek world -- Early Athens -- The Democratic revolution -- Sparta -- Greek religion -- The Persian Wars -- The Greeks at war -- ACT II: The Classical Period (479-323) : a tale, mainly, of two cities -- The Delian League -- The economy of Greece -- Athens in the age of Pericles -- Women, sexuality, and family life -- The Peloponnesian War -- The instability of Syracuse -- Socrates and the Thirty Tyrants -- The futility of war -- The Macedonian conquest -- Alexander the Great -- ACT III: The Hellenistic Period (323-30) : Greeks, Macedonians, and Romans -- The successor kingdoms -- A time of adjustment -- The Greek cities in the New World -- Social life and intellectual culture -- The Roman conquest -- A feat of imagination.
Summary: 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. This is an exciting and rich narrative account of the cradle of Western civilisation. It highlights the key achievements of the Greeks, including the birth of democracy, tragedy, philosophy, and science. Engaging and comprehensive, this book provides more detail and a larger chronological scope than most general histories of ancient Greece.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction I: Environmental background -- Introduction II: Historical background -- ACT I: The Archaic Period (750-480) : the formation of states -- The emergence of the Greeks -- Aristocracy and the archaic state -- The archaic Greek world -- Early Athens -- The Democratic revolution -- Sparta -- Greek religion -- The Persian Wars -- The Greeks at war -- ACT II: The Classical Period (479-323) : a tale, mainly, of two cities -- The Delian League -- The economy of Greece -- Athens in the age of Pericles -- Women, sexuality, and family life -- The Peloponnesian War -- The instability of Syracuse -- Socrates and the Thirty Tyrants -- The futility of war -- The Macedonian conquest -- Alexander the Great -- ACT III: The Hellenistic Period (323-30) : Greeks, Macedonians, and Romans -- The successor kingdoms -- A time of adjustment -- The Greek cities in the New World -- Social life and intellectual culture -- The Roman conquest -- A feat of imagination.

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. This is an exciting and rich narrative account of the cradle of Western civilisation. It highlights the key achievements of the Greeks, including the birth of democracy, tragedy, philosophy, and science. Engaging and comprehensive, this book provides more detail and a larger chronological scope than most general histories of ancient Greece.

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