
Ancient Greek Civilization
David Sansone(Author)
Blackwell Publishers
Published on 30. October 2003
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-631-23235-3 (ISBN)
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Description
This book is a survey of the history, literature, art, and philosophy of the ancient Greeks from the Bronze Age to the transformation of Greek culture during the Roman Empire. It tells the story of Greek civilization from the Bronze Age to the transformation of Greek culture during the Roman Empire. It surveys the impressive history, literature, art, and philosophy of the ancient Greeks. It shows how the ancient Greeks used these forms of cultural expression to reinvent themselves and how Greek civilization has been continually reinvented to the present day. Its features include maps, illustrations, timelines, a glossary, a guide to ancient Greek writers and a bibliography.
Reviews / Votes
"Sansone's coverage and approach are fresh and distinctive, and his book richly informative, well-balanced, and engagingly written." Professor Stephen White, University of Texas at Austin "Ancient Greek Civilisation is a deeply thought-out and personal survey of ancient Greek culture." Times Higher Education Supplement "The classicist approach to the topic is evident in his focus on artistic and literary developments and thier relationship to history, politics, and everyday social practices." Art Book News AnnualMore details
Edition
Annotated edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
students of Greek civilization
Edition type
Annotated edition
Illustrations
10 Schaubilder, 7 Karten, 53 Fotos bzw. Rasterbilder
17
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 171 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-23235-3 (9780631232353)
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Person
David Sansone is Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Aeschylean Metaphors for Intellectual Activity (1975), and Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport (1988), and the editor of Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris (1981) and Plutarch - The Lives of Aristeides and Cato. He is on the Editorial Board of Illinois Classical Studies, of which he was the editor from 1993 to 2000, and on the Editorial Board of the journals Classical Philology and the Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
Content
List of Figures.List of Maps.List of Timelines.Foreword: Looking Backward.1. Greece in the Bronze Age.2. Iron Age Greece.3. The Poems of Hesiod and Homer.4. Poetry and Sculpture of the Archaic Period.5. Symposia, Seals, and Ceramics in the Archaic Period.6. The Birth of Philosophy and the Persian Wars.7. Setting the Stage for Democracy.8. History and Tragedy in the Fifth Century BC.9. The Peloponnesian War: A Tale of Thucydides.10. Stage and Lawcourt in Late Fifth-Century BC Athens.11. The Transformation of the Greek World in the Fourth Century BC.12. Greek Culture in the Hellenistic Period.Afterword: Looking Forward.Glossary.Index.