With this warning in mind, I have tried to include material from as many different places as possible, but I am under no illusion of having provided as much coverage of non-Athenian history as others may like to see. Above all, it will not do to generalize about what "ancient Greeks" did or thought or said when the evidence for such generalizations comes solely from Athens (or indeed from any one place). Since Greece was home to hundreds of other city-states, many of which differed in significant ways from Athens, studying the history of Athens cannot be taken as equivalent to studying the history of Greece. In the eighth to fourth centuries B.C.Athens receives the most space because the overwhelming preponderance of the evidence surviving from ancient Greece concerns Athens in the Classical period (c. That is, more pages are devoted to the middle of the story than to the beginning and the end because I concentrate on the full development of the Greek city-state as a religious, social, political, and economic entity The narrative has the bell-curve shape of many histories of ancient Greece. At http:/TRM_Overview/ readers can visit an on-line version. This book expands the text of the overview the software versions provide many more illustrations and direct links to ancient sources. This volume is intended to contribute to the synergy that these different tools can create when used together. For me, the convenience and portability that books allow make them indispensable tools for learning and thinking, and I see an ongoing need for both books and software in the study of ancient Greece. Although this book is able to stand on its own, I hope that users of Perseus will find it useful as a "hard-copy" complement to their computerized materials. have been revised and expanded and the survey of ancient Greek history completed by adding sections on the prehistory of Greece, the Bronze Age, the Dark Age, and the He1lenisticAge.TheYale Nota Bene edition has minor corrections (with no change in pagination) and a revised list of suggested readings. Sections included in Perseus on Greece of the eighth to the fourth centuries B.C. The narrative forms part of my earlier work writing the "Historical Overview" that appears among the electronic databases published in Perseus: Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece, Gregory Crane, editor in chief (Yale University Press, 1992, 1996, 2000). until the coming of the Romans in the second century B.C. This book reviews the history of ancient Greece, from Greece's place in the prehistory of Europe to the period following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. Vase painting of Theseus and Poseidon 40. Vase painting of Heracles stabbing Kyknosģ9. Christian shrine on site of ancient Asclepius sanctua 38. Vase painting of Odysseus and Elpenor in Hades 36. Silver coin of Demetrius, Macedonian king.įollowing page 173 31. ![]() The interior of an Athenian silver mine 22. The railway line through the Athenian agora 21. Temple built into cathedral in Syracuse 20. The meeting place of the Athenian assembly 18. The defensive walls and towers of Eleutheraiġ7. ![]() Vase painting of warrior killing Amazon 14. Knossos palace fresco 6 Pylos palace bathtub 7. Examples of Letters from Early Alphabetsįollowing page 35 Neolithic Dimini Endomorphic female statue from Malta Minoan Thera Minoan Gourniaĥ. Athens near the End of the Fifth Century B.C. Attica Showing Battle of Marathon (490 B.c.) and Battle of Salamis (480 B.c.) 2. Alexander's Route of Conquest, 335-323 B.C. Areas of Indo-European Language Groups 3. ![]() Neolithic, Minoan, and Mycenaean PeriodsĢ. Suggested Readings Index About Perseus 2.0 ![]() officeĪ catalogue record for this book is availableħ3, 96, 126, 149, 176, 200 List of Illustrations Introduction AbbreviationsĬhapter 1: Backgrounds of Ancient Greek History Chapter 2: From Indo-Europeans to Mycenaeans Chapter 3: The Dark Age Chapter 4: The Archaic Age Chapter 5: Oligarchy, Tyranny, and Democracy Chapter 6: From Persian Wars to Athenian Empire Chapter 7: Culture and Society in Classical Athens Chapter 8: The Peloponnesian War and Its Aftermath at Athens Chapter 9: From the Peloponnesian War to Alexander the Great Chapter 10: The Hellenistic Age University Press publications, please contact: U.S. Without written permission from the publishersįor information about this and other Yale Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), (beyond that copying permitted by Sectionsġ07 and 108 of the U.S. Includes bibliographical references and index This book may not be reproduced, in whole or The Library of Congress has cataloged the First published as a Yale Nora Bene book in
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