Ancient Greece : A Political, Social, and Cultural History,9780199846047

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Ancient Greece : A Political, Social, and Cultural History

by Sarah B. Pomeroy; Stanley M. Burstein; Walter Donlan; Jennifer Tolbert Roberts; David Tandy

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9780199846047

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12/16/2011

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Oxford University Press, USA

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Revised and updated throughout, the third edition of Ancient Greece presents the political, social, cultural, and economic history and civilization of ancient Greece in all its complexity and variety. Written by five leading authorities on the classical world, this captivating study covers theentire period from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic Era.FEATURES* New! Extensively revised coverage of early Greece by new coauthor David Tandy* New! A revised art program that includes two eight-page color inserts (one new to this edition), 180 black-and-white photos and line drawings, and eighteen maps* Uniquely in-depth coverage of social and cultural topics including women and family life, material culture, religion, law, homosexuality, slavery, athletics, and life in the countryside* Excerpts from ancient documents, selective recommendations for further reading, and a timeline and general introduction that provide a bird's-eye view of Greek history* Key terms (boldfaced at their first appearance) and an extensive glossary* New! A Companion Website featuring chapter summaries, self-quizzes, discussion questions, flashcards of key terms, maps, a pronunciation guide, links to useful websites, and a film and television guide

Author Biography

Sarah B. Pomeroy is Distinguished Professor of Classics and History Emerita at Hunter College and The City University of New York Graduate Center. Stanley M. Burstein is Professor of History Emeritus at California State University, Los Angeles. The late Walter Donlan was Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine. Jennifer Tolbert Roberts is Professor of Classics and History at City College and The City University of New York Graduate Center. David Tandy is Professor and Head of the Department of Classics at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Maps and Battle Plans	p. xii
Preface	p. xiii
New to the Third Edition	p. xiv
Translations Used by Permission	p. xv
Timeline	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
A Bird's-Eye View of Greek History	p. 1
Sources: How We Know About the Greeks	p. 4
Retrieving the Past: The Material Record	p. 5
Retrieving the Past: The Written Record	p. 6
Periodization	p. 7
Frogs Around a Pond	p. 8
City-States	p. 8
Greek City-States	p. 9
Early Greece and the Bronze Age	p. 12
Domestication	p. 16
Sources for Early Greek History	p. 17
The Land of Greece	p. 18
Greece and the Near East in the "Final Neolithic" Period (c. 4000-3000 BC)	p. 22
Greece in the Early and Middle Bronze Ages (c. 3000-1600 BC)	p. 23
Minoan Civilization	p. 27
Greece and the Aegean in the Late Bronze Age (1600-1200 BC)	p. 35
The Years of Glory (c. 1400-1200 BC)	p. 40
The End of the Mycenaean Civilization	p. 51
The "Dark Age" of Greece and the Eighth-Century "Renaissance" (c. 1200-750/700 BC)	p. 56
Sources for the Dark Age	p. 57
Decline and Recovery (c. 1200-900 BC)	p. 59
The New Society of the Dark Age	p. 63
Revival (c. 900-750 BC)	p. 69
Homer and Oral Poetry	p. 70
Late Dark Age (Homeric) Society	p. 73
Community, Household, and Economy in the Late Dark Age	p. 85
The End of the Dark Age (c. 750-700 BC)	p. 89
Archaic Greece (c. 750/700-480 BC)	p. 102
Sources for the Seventh and Sixth Centuries	p. 103
The Formation of the City-State (Polis)	p. 104
The Ethnos	p. 106
Government in the Early City-States	p. 107
The Colonizing Movement	p. 110
Economic and Social Divisions in the Early Poleis	p. 116
Hesiod: The View from Below	p. 120
The Hoplite Army	p. 123
The Archaic Age Tyrants	p. 127
Art and Architecture	p. 130
Lyric Poetry	p. 136
Philosophy and Science	p. 143
Panhellenic Institutions	p. 146
Relations Among States	p. 148
Sparta	p. 154
Sources for Spartan History and Institutions	p. 154
The Dark Age and the Archaic Period	p. 158
The Spartan System	p. 162
Demography and the Spartan Economy	p. 172
Spartan Government	p. 175
Sparta and Greece	p. 179
Historical Change in Sparta	p. 180
The Spartan Mirage in Western Thought	p. 182
The Growth of Athens and the Persian Wars	p. 186
Sources for Early Athens	p. 186
Athens from the Bronze Age to the Early Archaic Age	p. 187
The Reforms of Solon	p. 191
Pisistratus and His Sons	p. 196
The Reforms of Cleisthenes	p. 205
The Rise of Persia	p. 207
The Wars Between Greece and Persia	p. 210
The Other War: Carthage and the Greek Cities of Sicily	p. 229
The Rivalries of the Greek City-States and the Growth of Athenian Democracy	p. 232
Sources for the Decades After the Persian Wars	p. 233
The Aftermath of the Persian Wars and the Foundation of the Delian League	p. 234
The "First" (Undeclared) Peloponnesian War (460-445 BC)	p. 242
Pericles and the Growth of Athenian Democracy	p. 244
Literature and Art	p. 249
Oikos and Polis	p. 258
The Greek Economy	p. 270
Greece on the Eve of the Peloponnesian War	p. 277
Sources for Greece on the Eve of the War	p. 277
Greece After the Thirty Years' Peace	p. 279
The Breakdown of the Peace	p. 282
Resources for War	p. 287
Intellectual Life in Fifth-Century Greece	p. 288
Historical and Dramatic Literature of the Fifth Century	p. 291
Currents in Greek Thought and Education	p. 302
The Physical Space of the Polis: Athens on the Eve of War	p. 309
The Peloponnesian War	p. 324
Sources for Greece During the Peloponnesian War	p. 325
The Archidamian War (431-421 BC)	p. 326
The Rise of Comedy	p. 337
Between Peace and War	p. 340
The Invasion of Sicily (415-413 BC)	p. 343
The War in the Aegean and the Oligarchic Coup at Athens (413-411 BC)	p. 349
Fallout from the Long War	p. 357
The War in Retrospect	p. 364
The Crisis of the Polis and the Age of Shifting Hegemonies	p. 369
Sources for Fourth-Century Greece	p. 370
Postwar Greece and the Struggle for Hegemony	p. 371
Law and Democracy in Athens	p. 380
The Fourth-Century Polis	p. 388
Philosophy and the Polis	p. 392
Philip II and the Rise of Macedon	p. 409
Sources for Macedonian History	p. 409
Early Macedonia	p. 410
Macedonian Society and Kingship	p. 411
The Reign of Philip II	p. 415
Macedonian Domination of Greece	p. 426
Alexander the Great	p. 434
Sources for the Reign of Alexander	p. 436
Consolidating Power	p. 437
From Issus to Egypt: Conquest of the Eastern Mediterranean (332-331 BC)	p. 449
From Alexandria to Persepolis: The King of Asia (331-330 BC)	p. 452
The High Road to India: Alexander in Central Asia	p. 455
India and the End of the Dream	p. 460
Return to the West	p. 463
Alexander's Successors and the Cosmopolis	p. 469
A New World	p. 469
Sources for the Hellenistic Period	p. 471
The Struggle for the Succession	p. 473
The Regency of Perdiccas	p. 473
The Primacy of Antigonus the One-Eyed	p. 475
Birth Pangs of the New Order (301-276 BC)	p. 479
The Place of the Polis in the Cosmopolis	p. 483
The Macedonian Kingdoms	p. 489
Hellenistic Society	p. 493
Alexandria and Hellenistic Culture	p. 494
Social Relations in the Hellenistic World	p. 504
Epilogue	p. 513
Glossary	p. 520
Art and Illustration Credits	p. 535
Index	p. 543
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