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A Short History of Ancient Greece
About This Book
Classical Greece and its legacy have long inspired a powerful and passionate fascination. The civilization that bequeathed to later ages drama and democracy, Homer and heroism, myth and Mycenae and the Delphic Oracle and the Olympic Games has, perhaps more than any other, helped shape the intellectual contours of the modern world. P J Rhodes is among the most distinguished historians of antiquity. In this elegant, zesty new survey he explores the archaic (8thâearly 5th centuries BCE), classical (5th and 4th centuries BCE) and Hellenistic (late 4thâmid-2nd centuries BCE) periods up to the beginning of Roman hegemony. His scope is that of the peoples who originated on the Greek mainland and Aegean islands who later migrated to the shores of the Mediterranean and Black Seas, and then (following the conquests of Alexander) to the Near East and beyond. Exploring topics such as the epic struggle with Persia; the bitter rivalry of Athens and Sparta; slaves and ethnicity; religion and philosophy; and literature and the visual arts, this authoritative book will attract students and non-specialists in equal measure.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Maps and Illustrations
- Preface
- Words and Names; References to Sources
- Principal Dates
- Chapter 1: Prologue
- Archaic Greece c.800â500
- Classical Greece, c.500â323
- Hellenistic Greece, 323â146
- Guide to Further Reading
- Glossary
- Notes