Ancient Greek Civilization

by Sansone, David

• ISBN13: 9781405167321
• ISBN10: 1405167327
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-20
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A concise narrative of Greek history and an analysis of the literature, art, and thought of the ancient Greeks. Tells the story of Greek civilization from the from the Minoan Period to the time of the Byzantine Empire Surveys the remarkable culture and history the ancient Greeks Explores the ways in which Greek civilization has been continually reinvented from antiquity to the present day Updated edition includes additional illustrations, maps, and timelines, a glossary, and an annotated bibliography

Author Biography

David Sansone is Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has published extensively on Greek language and literature, including literary and textual criticism of Greek tragedy and Plutarch’s Lives and a theoretical study of the origin of sport. He has been on the Board of Directors of the American Philological Association and held a number of editorial positions, among them the editorship of Illinois Classical Studies and membership of the editorial boards of Classical Philology and Bryn Mawr Classical Review.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Maps

List of Timelines

Foreword: Looking Backward

Greece in the Bronze Age

Iron Age Greece

The Poems of Hesiod and Homer

Poetry and Sculpture of the Archaic Period

Symposia, Seals, and Ceramics in the Archaic Period

The Birth of Philosophy and the Persian Wars

Setting the Stage for Democracy

History and Tragedy in the Fifth Century BC

The Peloponnesian War: A Tale of Thucydides

Stage and Lawcourt in Late Fifth-Century BC Athens

The Transformation of the Greek World in the Fourth Century BC

Greek Culture in the Hellenistic Period

Afterword: Looking Forward

Glossary

Index

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