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This book opens the world of the ancient Greeks to all readers through easily accessible entries on topics essential to understanding Greek high culture and daily life.
The ancient Greeks provided the foundation for Western civilization. They made significant advances in science, mathematics, philosophy, literature, and government. While many readers might have heard of Plato and Aristotle, however, or be familiar with the classic works of Greek tragedy, most people know significantly less about daily life in the ancient Greek world. This encyclopedia opens the world of the ancient Greeks, spanning Greek history from the Bronze Age through Roman times, with an emphasis on the Classical and Hellenistic Eras.
The encyclopedia provides roughly 270 easily accessible entries on topics essential to understanding everything from Greek high culture to daily life. These entries are grouped in topical sections on the arts, science and technology, politics and government, domestic life, and other subjects. Sidebars on particularly noteworthy people, places, and concepts provide related information, while primary documents allow readers to delve into the mindset and feelings of the ancient Greeks themselves. Extensive bibliographic references give curious readers direction for further research.
Contents
Preface,
Introduction,
Chronology,
VOLUME 1
Arts,
Introduction,
Dance,
Gold and Silver,
History,
Literature, Hellenistic,
Mosaics,
Music,
Painting, Pottery,
Painting, Walls/Panels,
Philosophy, Aristotle,
Philosophy, Cynics,
Philosophy, Epicureans,
Philosophy, Platonic,
Philosophy, Skeptics,
Philosophy, Stoics,
Poetry, Epic,
Poetry, Lyric,
Rhetoric,
Satyr Plays,
Sculpture, Archaic,
Sculpture, Hellenistic,
Sculpture/Freestanding Statuary, Classical,
Sculpture/Reliefs, Mounted Statuary, Classical,
Second Sophistic Movement,
Sophists,
Temple Architecture,
Theater, Comedy,
Theater, Tragedy,
Economics and Work,
Introduction,
Actors,
Agriculture,
Animal Husbandry,
Apothecaries/Pharmacology,
Banking,
Carpentry,
Cloth-Making,
Cost of Living,
Currency,
Debt,
Fishing,
Landownership,
Masonry,
Merchants and Markets,
Metal-Refining,
Metalworking,
Midwives and Wet Nurses,
Mining,
Orators and Speechwriters,
Piracy and Banditry,
Pottery-Making,
Retirement,
Slavery, Private,
Slavery, Public,
Social Revolution, Hellenistic Era,
Taxation,
Trade,
Travel,
Viticulture,
Weights and Measures,
Family and Gender,
Introduction,
Abandonment and Abortion,
Adoption,
Adultery,
Blended Families,
Burial,
Childbirth and Infancy,
Childhood and Youth,
Clans/Gene,
Daughters,
Death and Dying,
Divorce,
Extended Family,
Fathers,
Friendship and Love,
Grandparents,
Homosexuality,
Inheritance,
Marriage,
Men,
Mothers,
Mourning/Memorialization,
Play,
Sexuality,
Sons,
Weddings,
Women,
Fashion and Appearance,
Introduction,
Bathing/Baths,
Body, Attitudes toward,
Clothing, Classical Age, Females,
Clothing, Classical Age, Males,
Cosmetics,
Footwear,
Foreign Dress,
Hairstyles,
Headgear,
Hygiene,
Jewelry,
Food and Drink,
Introduction,
Bread,
Cheese and Other Dairy Products,
Condiments and Seasonings,
Cooking,
Dessert,
Drunkenness,
Famine and Food Supply,
Feasts and Banquets,
Fruits and Nuts,
Grains,
Hospitality,
Hunting and Wild Game,
Kitchens/Kitchen Utensils,
Legumes,
Meals,
Meat,
Nectar and Ambrosia,
Nutrition and Malnutrition,
Olives and Olive Oil,
Poisons and Toxic Foods,
Potions,
Poultry, Birds, and Eggs,
Seafood,
Soups and Stews,
Vegetables,
Vegetarianism,
Wine,
VOLUME 2
Housing and Community,
Introduction,
Acropolis,
Andron and Gynaikonitis,
Cemeteries,
Colonization,
Country Life,
Fortifications,
Furniture and Furnishings,
Health and Illness,
Household Religion,
Housing Architecture,
Infrastructure,
Marketplaces,
Palace Complexes, Bronze Age,
Plague/Epidemic Disease,
Public Buildings,
Resident Aliens, Immigrants, and Foreigners,
Urban Life,
Water Supply and Hydraulic Engineering,
Politics and Warfare,
Introduction,
Alexander the Great, Wars of,
Aristocracies,
Aristotle, Political Theory of,
Arms and Armor,
Assemblies,
Athenian Constitution,
Carthage, Wars with,
Cavalry,
Citizenship,
City-States,
Civil War,
Councils,
Democracies,
Diplomacy,
Ethnos,
Hoplite Soldiers,
Justice and Punishment,
Leagues/Alliances,
Monarchies,
Navies,
Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE),
Persian Wars (490-478 BCE),
Phalanx,
Plato, Political Theory of,
Public Officials,
Siege Technology,
Spartan Constitution,
Tyrannies,
Warfare, Attitudes toward,
Recreation and Social Customs,
Introduction,
Athletics,
Boxing,
City Dionysia,
Class Structure and Status,
Entertainers, Popular,
Festivals,
Gymnasia/Palaestrae,
Horse Racing,
Leisure Activities,
Liturgies, Euergetism, and Welfare,
Olympic Games,
Panathenaia,
Panhellenic Games,
Prostitutes and Courtesans,
Racing,
Stadiums and Hippodromes,
Symposia,
Theaters,
Wrestling,
Religion and Beliefs,
Introduction,
Afterlife/Underworld,
Asylum,
Bacchic Worship,
Chthonic Spirits,
Creation,
Deification,
Eleusinian Mysteries,
Libations and Offerings,
Magic,
Myths and Heroes,
Olympian Gods,
Oracles,
Orphism,
Priests and Priestesses,
Prophecy and Divination,
Pythagoreans,
Sacrifices,
Temples, Shrines, and Sacred Groves,
Science and Technology,
Introduction,
Alphabet,
Artificial Power,
Astronomy,
Biology,
Botany,
Calendars,
Cosmology,
Education,
Engineering,
Experimentation and Research,
Exploration,
Geography,
Geometry,
Greek Language Groups,
Inscriptions,
Libraries and Literacy,
Linear A and Linear B,
Machines,
Mathematics and Numeracy,
Medicine,
Navigation,
"Paper"-Making,
Physics,
Ships/Shipbuilding,
Time-Reckoning,
Vehicles,
Zoology,
Primary Documents,
Aeschines on Foreign Negotiation and Domestic Mud-Slinging (343 BCE),
Aristophanes on an Ideal State Run by Women (392 BCE),
Aristotle on Familial Friendship (Fourth Century BCE),
Diogenes Laertius on the Philosopher Hipparchia (Third Century CE),
Euripides on Women's Tragedy of Surviving War (415 BCE),
Herodotus on Gelon's Refusal to Join the Greek Alliance (481 BCE),
Hesiod on the Values of Life (Eighth Century BCE),
"Hippocrates" on Diagnosis and Observation of Illnesses (Late Fifth Century BCE),
Homeric Hymn to Mother Earth (Date Unknown),
Lysias on the Murder of an Adulterer (403 BCE),
Menander on Love Troubles and Social Mores (Late Fourth Century BCE),
The Old Oligarch on the Problems of Democracy (Later Fifth Century BCE),
Pindar Celebrates a Wrestling Champion (c. 463 BCE),
Plutarch on Father (Philip) and Son (Alexander) (Second Century CE),
Poetry—Greek Poets on Love,
Poetry—Greek Poets on War,
Theocritus Describes Women at a Festival (Early Third Century BCE),
Thucydides on the Corcyraean Revolution (427 BCE),
Xenophon on the Roles of Wife and Husband (c. 362 BCE),
Bibliography,
Index,
