Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander The Evidence

by Roisman, Joseph; Yardley, J. C.

• ISBN13: 9781405127769
• ISBN10: 1405127767
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-25
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

With fresh, new translations and extensive introductions and annotations, this sourcebook provides an inclusive and integrated view of Greek history, from Homer to Alexander the Great. New translations of original sources are contextualized by insightful introductions and annotations Includes a range of literary, artistic and material evidence from the Homeric, Archaic and Classical Ages Focuses on important developments as well as specific themes to create an integrated perspective on the period Links the political and social history of the Greeks to their intellectual accomplishments Includes an up-to-date bibliography of seminal scholarship An accompanying website offers additional evidence and explanations, as well as links to useful online resources

Author Biography

Joseph Roisman is Professor of Classics at Colby College. He has authored and edited several books, among them Brill’s Companion to Alexander the Great (2003) and The Rhetoric of Manhood: Masculinity in the Attic Orators (2005).

J.C. Yardley is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Ottawa. He has published extensively on Greek and Roman history and sources. His books include Alexander the Great: Historical Sources in Translation (ed. with Waldemar Heckel, Blackwell, 2004) and many translations of key texts, from Tacitus and Justin to Livy and Quintus Curtius Rufus.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Maps

Preface

Abbreviations

Glossary

Greek Weights, Measures, Coins and the Athenian Calendar

Timeline

Introduction: The Evidence for Greek History and Culture

The World of Homer

The World of Hesiod

The Early Greek Polis (City-State), Ethnos and Federal States

Settlements Across the Sea: Greek "Colonization"

Aristocratic Power and Attitudes

Archaic Tyranny

Archaic and Classical Sparta

Hoplites and Their Values

Archaic Athens From Draco to Solon

Tyranny in Athens

Cleisthenes and Athenian Democracy (508/7)

Archaic Society and Culture: Gender, Sexuality, Banquet and Competition

Archaic Law

Archaic Greek Religion

The Ionian Revolt: Persians and Greeks

The Battle of Marathon (490)

The Persian War (480-79)

The Athenian Empire

Empowering Athenian Democracy (462/1-451/0)

War and Peace in Greece (461/0-437/6)

The Administration of the Empire and the Athenian Tribute Quota Lists

The City of Athens

The Sophists, Athenian Democracy and Its Critics

The Causes of the Peloponnesian War and the Athenian and Spartan Strategies

The Peloponnesian War: The Archidamian War (431-21)

Finances and Allies During the Archidamian War

The Uneasy Peace and the Sicilian Expedition (421-413)

The Peloponnesian War: the Decelean War (413-404)

The Rule of the Thirty, The Athenian Amnesty and Socrates' Trial

Sparta After The Peloponnesian War: Politics, Wealth and Demography

The Spartan Hegemony, the Corinthian War and the Peace of Antalcidas (404/3-388/7)

From the Peace of Antalcidas (387) to the Battle of Leuctra and Its Aftermath (371)

Jason of Pherae (? - 370)

Athenian Imperialism and Theban Hegemony

Running the Athenian Polis: Politics, Finances, Grain and Trade in the Fourth Century

Metics (Resident Aliens), Slaves and Barbarians

Masculine and Feminine Gender in Classical Athens

Philip II of Macedonia (359-336)

Alexander the Great (336-323)

Bibliography

Index of Ancient Sources

General Index

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