Description
Book SynopsisThis is a single-volume introduction to Ancient Greece, covering the period from the Golden Age of Knossos and Mycenae to the incorporation of Greece into the Roman empire in the second century BC and the transfer of Greek culture to Byzantium in the fourth century.
Trade Review"This will make an excellent textbook. Everyone teaching Greek history complains constantly of the lack of a good book. This one has a good balance of narrative and social/economic history. It's also unusual in trying to cover all areas of Greece, not just Athens and Sparta. I should add that I've read a couple of other Greek history textbooks in preparation for other publishers in the last couple of years, and this book is head-and-shoulders above the rest. It's a really good book."
Ian Morris, Stanford University " ... presents both an elegant narrative and an interesting assessment of the Hellenistic world" Greece and Rome
"... innovative ... While the traditional 'glories' of Greek history - the classical period, the history of Athens - are excellently handled, this is not at the expense of less frequently covered terrain." Times Higher Education Supplement
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vii
Translator's Note ix
Figures xi
Foreword xiii
A Country 1
1 The Greek World's Earliest Times 5
2 The Archaic World 36
3 The Classical Period: The Fifth Century 114
4 The Classical Period: The Fourth Century 227
5 The Hellenistic Period 292
Conclusion 368
The Sources 371
Chronological Table 381
Lexicon 392
Guide to Further Reading 401
Index 413
