List of figures and tables | p. ix |
Preface | p. xiv |
The Homeric World | p. 1 |
Bronze Age Greece | p. 1 |
Minoan | p. 1 |
Mycenaean | p. 4 |
Homer and history | p. 7 |
The Iliad | p. 11 |
The Odyssey | p. 18 |
Homeric ideals: civilized social living | p. 22 |
Homeric ideals: poetry and art | p. 24 |
The Greek love of beauty and Homer's style | p. 26 |
History | p. 30 |
The main historical sources | p. 30 |
The city state before the Persian Wars | p. 42 |
The Persian Wars | p. 48 |
Democracy and empire: Periclean Athens | p. 52 |
The Peloponnesian War | p. 58 |
Spartan hegemony and the Second Athenian League | p. 61 |
The rise of Phillip of Macedon | p. 62 |
The opposition of Demosthenes | p. 63 |
Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic age | p. 67 |
Religion and Social Life | p. 71 |
Religion | p. 71 |
The household | p. 82 |
Women | p. 83 |
Slaves | p. 87 |
The gymnasium | p. 90 |
Games | p. 94 |
The symposium | p. 96 |
Homosexuality | p. 98 |
Literature | p. 103 |
Introduction | p. 103 |
Tragedy: festivals and conventions | p. 108 |
Aeschylus (525-456) | p. 113 |
Sophocles (c. 496-406) | p. 117 |
Euripides (c. 485-406) | p. 122 |
Old Comedy: Aristophanes (c. 450-c. 385) | p. 126 |
Later comedy | p. 131 |
Oratory and prose | p. 132 |
Hellenistic literature: Alexandrianism | p. 139 |
Philosophy | p. 142 |
The Presocratics | p. 142 |
Socrates (469-399) and the sophists | p. 144 |
Plato (c. 427-347) | p. 151 |
Aristotle (384-322) | p. 158 |
Hellenistic philosophy: post-Aristotelians | p. 164 |
Art | p. 169 |
Geometric beginnings | p. 170 |
The Archaic period | p. 172 |
The Classical period | p. 179 |
The Hellenistic period | p. 207 |
Appendices | p. 220 |
Chronological table | p. 220 |
List of translations cited in the text | p. 226 |
Glossary | p. 229 |
Suggestions for further reading | p. 233 |
Index | p. 237 |
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