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A History of Ancient Greece
Claude Orrieux (Author), Pauline Schmitt-Pantel (Author)
9780631203094, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 20 October 1999
448 pages
24.6 x 17.3 x 2.6 cm, 0.771 kg
"This will make an excellent textbook. Everyone teaching Greek history complains constantly of the lack of a good book. This one has a good balance of narrative and social/economic history. It's also unusual in trying to cover all areas of Greece, not just Athens and Sparta. I should add that I've read a couple of other Greek history textbooks in preparation for other publishers in the last couple of years, and this book is head-and-shoulders above the rest. It's a really good book." Ian Morris, Stanford University " ... presents both an elegant narrative and an interesting assessment of the Hellenistic world" Greece and Rome "... innovative ... While the traditional 'glories' of Greek history - the classical period, the history of Athens - are excellently handled, this is not at the expense of less frequently covered terrain." Times Higher Education Supplement
This is a major, single-volume introduction to the whole of Ancient Greek History. It covers the period from the Golden Age of Knossos and Mycenae to the incorporation of Greece into the Roman empire in the second century BC and the transfer of Greek culture to Byzantium in the fourth century AD.
Acknowledgements vii Translator's Note ix Figures xi Foreword xiii A Country 1 1 The Greek World's Earliest Times 5 2 The Archaic World 36 3 The Classical Period: The Fifth Century 114 4 The Classical Period: The Fourth Century 227 5 The Hellenistic Period 292 Conclusion 368 The Sources 371 Chronological Table 381 Lexicon 392 Guide to Further Reading 401 Index 413
Subject Areas: History [HB]
