Ancient Greek Civilization
2nd Edition
Published on 31. August 2011
320 pages
978-1-4443-5877-3 (ISBN)
Description
A concise narrative of Greek history and an analysis of theliterature, art, and thought of the ancient Greeks.
* Tells the story of Greek civilization from the from the MinoanPeriod to the time of the Byzantine Empire
* Surveys the remarkable culture and history the ancientGreeks
* Explores the ways in which Greek civilization has beencontinually reinvented from antiquity to the present day
* Updated edition includes additional illustrations, maps, andtimelines, a glossary, and an annotated bibliography
* Tells the story of Greek civilization from the from the MinoanPeriod to the time of the Byzantine Empire
* Surveys the remarkable culture and history the ancientGreeks
* Explores the ways in which Greek civilization has beencontinually reinvented from antiquity to the present day
* Updated edition includes additional illustrations, maps, andtimelines, a glossary, and an annotated bibliography
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David Sansone
Ancient Greek Civilization
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David Sansone is Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has published extensively on Greek language and literature, including literary and textual criticism of Greek tragedy and Plutarch's Lives and a theoretical study of the origin of sport. He has been on the Board of Directors of the American Philological Association and held a number of editorial positions, among them the editorship of Illinois Classical Studies and membership of the editorial boards of Classical Philology and 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 CenturyBC.
12. Greek Culture in the Hellenistic Period.
Afterword: Looking Forward.
Glossary.
Index
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 CenturyBC.
12. Greek Culture in the Hellenistic Period.
Afterword: Looking Forward.
Glossary.
Index
