Greek Society

by Frost, Frank

• ISBN13: 9780669416954
• ISBN10: 0669416959
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-09-19
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This chronological narrative covers the Bronze Age to the end of the Roman Empire, with a useful epilogue that traces the Greek experience in medieval and modern times. Frost presents a level of detail that requires no prior background in Greek history. Fascinating anecdotes on the lives of ordinary Greek people help bring the past to life.

Table of Contents

Maps	ix	(1)
Preface	x	(2)
Chronology	xii
1 THE MYCENAEAN PROLOGUE	1	(16)
The Mycenaean Environment	3	(4)
Mycenaean Social Organization	7	(2)
The Mycenaean Economy	9	(3)
The End of the Mycenaean World	12	(2)
The Mycenaean Civilization in Retrospect	14	(3)
2 THE DARK AGE AND THE ARCHAIC AGE	17	(24)
Faith and Worship	19	(3)
The Farm	22	(5)
The Town	27	(2)
The Shore	29	(1)
The Age of Colonization	30	(3)
The Lyric Age: Poets and Philosophers	33	(4)
Contributions of the Archaic Age	37	(4)
3 THE WORLD OF THE GREEK POLIS	41	(26)
Historical Background, 550-336 B.C.	42	(2)
Sparta: An Experiment in Elitist Communism	44	(5)
Ionia: The Greeks of Asia Minor	49	(6)
Athens: The Education of Hellas	55	(12)
4 THE ECONOMIES OF THE GREEK WORLD	67	(20)
The Development of Coinage	68	(4)
Real Property	72	(4)
The Rise of Commercial Economies: Trade	76	(5)
Banking and Other Forms of Investment	81	(6)
5 GREEK SOCIETY IN THE AGE OF THE POLIS	87	(38)
Slaves	88	(5)
Women	93	(9)
Greek Homosexuality	102	(3)
Travelers and Resident Aliens	105	(1)
Farmer and Burgher: Middle-Class Attitudes	106	(7)
The Restless Intellect	113	(6)
Classical Epilogue: The Rise of the Individual	119	(6)
6 SOME GREEK PEOPLE	125	(26)
The Farmer: Hesiod	125	(4)
The Demagogue: Cleon of Athens	129	(4)
The Doctor: Ctesias of Knidos	133	(4)
The Hetairai: Aspasia and Neaira	137	(7)
The Explorer: Pytheas of Massalia	144	(7)
7 THE HELLENIC WORLD	151	(28)
The Conquests of Alexander the Great	152	(2)
The Political Settlement, 323-272 B.C.	154	(3)
Egypt Under the Ptolemies	157	(7)
Alexandria, the Hellenistic City	164	(4)
The Empire of the Seleucids	168	(4)
Old Greece: Macedon and the New Federalism	172	(7)
8 THE GREEK WORLD UNDER ROMAN RULE	179	(28)
Greece in the Roman Empire: The Economy	182	(9)
Greece in the Roman Empire: The Triumph of Hellenism	191	(7)
The Law and the Logos: Christianity and the Greeks	198	(6)
The Fall of Rome and the Survival of Greece	204	(3)
9 SOME MORE GREEK PEOPLE	207	(22)
The Revolutionary: Cleomenes of Sparta	207	(5)
The Bureaucrat: Tiberius of Smyrna	212	(6)
The Impostor: Alexander of Abonuteichos	218	(5)
The Philosopher: Hypatia of Alexandria	223	(6)
EPILOGUE	229	(6)
Index	235