A history of ancient Greece / Claude Orrieux and Pauline Schmitt Pantel
- Bib ID:
- 352160
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Orrieux, Claude, 1928-
- Uniform Title:
- Histoire grecque. English
- Description:
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- Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 1999
- xv, 432 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0631203087 (alkaline paper) (cased) (hardback)
- 0631203095 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- Summary:
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"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. The book combines narrative and socio-economic history to cover all regions of Greece, including territories on the edge of the Greek and Hellenistic worlds, as well as the traditional centres such as Athens and Sparta."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- A country
- 1. The Greek world's earliest times. The Bronze Age. The Iron Age
- 2. The archaic world. The Birth of Civic Communities. Emigration and the New Cities. The Eastern Mediterranean. The North-East of the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea. Southern Italy and Sicily. The Western Mediterranean or the 'Far West' ... The Consequences. The Forms of Power. Land Problems and Legislation. The Tyrannies. The Peoples and Cities of Greece: an Impressionistic Picture. An Aristocratic Power
- 3. The classical period: the fifth century. New Institutions in Athens. Greeks and Persians. Hegemony and Democracy. Relations between the Cities: Wars and Truces. A Democratic Culture. Society and the Economy in the Classical Period. Polytheism and Religious Life
- 4. The classical period: the fourth century. The End of the Classical Hegemonies. The Age of Eloquence. The Macedonian Peace: from One Common Peace into Another (355-336). Alexander the Great (336-323).
- The Failure of the Macedonian Peace (323-281)
- 5. The Hellenistic period. The Balance of Power: a World at War (281-220). A World at Peace. The End of Greek History.
- Notes:
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Translated from the French.
- Subject:
- Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C
- Other authors/contributors:
- Pantel, Pauline Schmitt
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1999
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