Ancient Greece: a political, social, and cultural history

Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History is a comprehensiveand balanced history, covering the political, military, social, cultural, andeconomic history of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Era. Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History is a comprehensiveand balanced history, covering the political, military, social, cultural, andeconomic history of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Era. INDICE: 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 Citiesof 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"…

• ISBN: 978-0-19-984604-7
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 592
• Fecha Publicación: 16/02/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés