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Covering the Bronze Age, as well as the archaic, classical, and early Hellenistic periods, Themes in Greek Society and Culture introduces students to central aspects of ancient Greek society. Each chapter covers a topic of importance to ancient Greek society, and contributes to an understanding of the Greeks' institutions, structures, activities, and cultural output. The volume brings together 19 expert contributors who apply this thematic approach to ask
what Greek society looked like and how its people lived.
Contents
Note: Each chapter contains:
- Opener
- Timeline
- Introduction
- Primary Source boxes (1-8 per chapter)
- Controversy boxes
- Links to Other Chapters
- Key Terms
- Summary
- End-of-chapter questions (5-10 per chapter)
- Further Reading
- Notes
- Works Cited
Introduction
Overview of Volume
Primary and Secondary Sources
An Evolving Discipline
Approaching the Evidence
Organization of Volume
Important Conventions
Resources
1. The Greek Bronze Age: Origins and Collapse, Brendan Burke
The First Greeks
Early and Middle Helladic Greece
Middle Bronze Age
Inventing the Minoans and Mycenaeans
Places of Crete
Explaining the Emergence of Aegean Civilization
Minoan and Mycenaean Religion
Minoans and Mycenaeans Abroad
Mycenaean Greece
End of the Bronze Age
2. The Ancient Greeks: From Mycenae to Macedon, Ron Kroeker
Sources
Dark Age (1100-750 BCE)
Archaic Period (750-480 BCE)
Classical Greece (480-323 BCE)
Hellenistic Period (323-31 BCE)
Primary Sources
3. Ordering the Polis: Government and Public Administration, Matthew A. Sears
Rise of the Polis
Types of Constitution
The Physical Setting
The End of the Polis
Primary Sources
4. War and Peace, Sheila Ager
Citizens and Soldiers
War: Conquest and Defence
Peace and Diplomacy
Burdens of War and Longing for Peace
Primary Sources
5. Sparta: Separating Reality from Mirage, Noreen Humble
Sources
Geography
Demography - Take One
Lycurgus and Political Stability
Societal Structure
Art, Music, and Religion
Women
Demography - Take Two
Primary Sources
6. Going to Market: The Economy and Society, Ben Akrigg
Growth
Environment
Household Economies
City Economies
Primary Sources
7. Connecting to the Divine: Greek Cult and Ritual, Bonnie MacLachlan
From the Beginning: The Aegean Bronze Age
The Archaic and Classical Periods
Hellenistic Religion
Primary Sources
8. Finding a Balance: Law and Justice in Ancient Greece, Judith Fletcher
The Concept of Justice
Common Features of Greek Law
Early Legal Systems
Primary Sources
9. Status and Class Jeremy Trevett
Status in Classical Athens
Status Differences and the Law
Class
Primary Sources
10. Slaves and Slavery Rob Tordoff
Problems and Methodology
Defining Ancient Greek Slavery
Sources of Slaves and the Slave Trade
Costs and Benefits
Slave Labour
The Practice and Ideology of Slave Holding
The World of Slaves
Primary Sources
11. From Birth to Death: Disease, Disability and Health, Maria A. Liston
Ancient Medicine
Birth
Childhood Disease
Adults
Lifespan and Death
Primary Sources
12. Gender and Sexuality, Allison Glazebrook
The Evidence
Constructing Gender
Primary Sources
13. Women and the Greek Household, Christina Vester
Sources
Olynthus and the Greek House
The Greek House: Survival and Growth
Perpetuating the Oikos: The Family
Primary Sources
14. At the Gymnasium: Competition and Sport, Reyes Bertolín-Cebrián
Evidence for Greek Sport
Types of Competitions
Events at Competitions
Training of Athletes
Sparta
Primary Sources
15. Literature and Performance, Andrew Faulkner
Homer and Oral Hexameter Poetry
Lyric Poetry: Sappho and Pindar
Athenian Tragedy and Comedy
Primary Sources
16. Art and Architecture, Marina Haworth
Geometric Period 900-700 BCE
Orientalising Period 700-700 BCE
Archaic Period 600-480 BCE
Classical Period 480-323 BCE
The Hellenistic Period 323-30 BCE
Primary Sources
17. Philosophy (600-300 BCE), Vernon Provencal
The Presocratic Sphinx of Early Greek Philosophy (600-450 BCE)
Humanism and the Sophists (450-400 BCE)
A Good Idea: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle (4th Century BCE)
Hellenistic Philosophy and Individualism (3rd-1st Centuries BCE)
Thematic Overview
Primary Sources
18. Ancient Macedonia: The Emergence of a New World Order, Frances Pownall
The Nature of the Evidence
The Physical World
Historical Overview
Macedonian Kingship and Political Institutions
Macedonian Royal Women
Macedonian Culture
Macedonian Art
Macedonian Religion
Macedonian Ethnicity
Primary Sources
19. The Past in the Present: Ancient Greece in Western Culture, Aara Suksi
The Iliad's Shield of Achilles and its Reception
Greek and Roman Receptions of Achilles' Shield
The Modern World
Primary Sources
Conclusion
Glossary
Index
