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Written by five leading authorities on the classical world, A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society, and Culture, Third Edition, is a shorter version of the authors' highly successful Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History, Third Edition (OUP, 2011). It offers a captivating account of Greek civilization and history in all its complexity and variety, covering the entire period from the Bronze Age through theHellenistic Era.
Contents
List of Maps ; Acknowledgments ; Preface ; Time Line ; Introduction ; Sources: How We Know About the Ancient Greeks ; Retrieving the Past: The Material Record ; Retrieving the Past: The Written Record ; A Synopsis of Written Sources by Periods ; The Physical Context: The Land of Greece ; Chapter One ; Early Greece and the Bronze Age ; Greece in the Stone Ages ; Greece in the Early and Middle Bronze Ages (c. 3000-1600 BC) ; Greece and the Aegean in the Late Bronze Age (c. 1600-1100 BC) ; Chapter Two ; The <"Dark Age>" of Greece and the Eighth-Century <"Renaissance>" (c. 1100-700 BC) ; Decline and Recovery (c. 1100-900 BC) ; Revival (c. 900-750 BC) ; Homeric Society ; The End of the Dark Age ; Chapter Three ; Archaic Greece (c. 700-480 BC) ; The Formation of the City-State (Polis) ; Government in the Early City-States ; The Colonizing Movement ; Economic and Social Divisions in the Archaic Poleis ; Hesiod: A View from Below ; The Hoplite Army ; The Archaic Age Tyrants ; The Arts and Sciences ; Panhellenic Institutions ; Relations Among States ; Chapter Four ; Sparta ; The Dark Age and the Archaic Period ; The Spartan System ; Demography and the Spartan Economy ; Spartan Government ; The Peloponnesian League ; Historical Change in Sparta ; The Spartan Mirage ; Chapter Five ; The Growth of Athens and the Persian Wars ; Athens from the Bronze Age to the Early Archaic Age ; The Reforms of Solon ; Pisistratus and His Sons ; The Reforms of Cleisthenes ; The Rise of Persia ; The Wars Between Greece and Persia ; Chapter Six ; The Rivalries of the Greek City-States and the Growth of Athenian Democracy ; The Aftermath of the Persian Invasions and the Foundation of a New League ; New Developments in Athens and Sparta ; The <"First>" (Undeclared) Peloponnesian War (460-445 BC) ; Pericles and the Growth of Athenian Democracy ; Literature and Art ; Oikos and Polis ; The Greek Economy ; Chapter Seven ; Greek Life and Culture in the Fifth Century ; Greece After the Thirty Years' Peace ; The Physical Space of the Polis: Athens in the Fifth Century ; Intellectual Life in Fifth-Century Greece ; Historical and Dramatic Literature of the Fifth Century ; Currents in Greek Thought and Education ; The Breakdown of the Peace ; Resources for War ; Chapter Eight ; The Peloponnesian War ; The Archidamian War (431-421 BC) ; The Rise of Comedy ; Between Peace and War ; The Invasion of Sicily (415-413 BC) ; The War in the Aegean and the Oligarchic Coup at Athens (413-411 BC) ; The Last Years of War (407-404 BC) ; Chapter Nine ; The Fourth Century: Changing Ideas, Continuing Warfare ; Oligarchy at Athens: The Thirty Tyrants ; The Trial of Socrates (399 BC) ; The Fourth Century: Changing Ideas, Continuing Warfare ; Law and Democracy in Athens ; The Fourth-Century Polis ; Philosophy and the Polis ; Chapter Ten ; Philip II and the Rise of Macedon ; Early Macedon ; Macedonian Society and Kingship ; The Reign of Philip II ; Philip's Plans for Greece ; Chapter Eleven ; Alexander the Great ; Consolidating Power ; From Issus to Egypt: Conquest of the Eastern Mediterranean (332-331 BC) ; From Alexandria to Persepolis: The King of Asia (331-330 BC) ; The High Road to India: Alexander in Central Asia ; India and the End of the Dream ; Return to the West ; The Achievements of Alexander ; Chapter Twelve ; The New World of the Hellenistic Period ; The Struggle for the Succession ; The Regency of Perdiccas ; The Primacy of Antigonus the One-Eyed ; Birth Pangs of the New Order (301-276 BC) ; The Polis in the Hellenistic World ; The Macedonian Kingdoms ; Hellenistic Society ; Alexandria and Hellenistic Culture ; Social Relations in the Hellenistic World ; Epilogue ; Glossary ; Art and Illustration Credits ; Index
