Creators, conquerors, and citizens : a history of ancient Greece 9780190234300, 019023430X, 9780190234324

"We Greeks are one in blood and one in language; we have temples to the gods and religious rites in common, and a c

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Creators, conquerors, and citizens : a history of ancient Greece
9780190234300, 019023430X, 9780190234324

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Robin Waterfield

Table of contents :
Content: Introduction I: Historical background --
Introduction II: Environmental background --
ACT I: The Archaic Period (750-480): the formation of states --
1. The emergence of the Greeks --
2. Aristocracy and the archaic state --
3. The archaic Greek world --
4. Early Athens --
5. The Democratic revolution --
6. Sparta --
7. Greek religion --
8. The Persian Wars --
9. The Greeks at war --
ACT II: The Classical Period (479-323): a tale, mainly, of two cities --
10. The Delian League --
11. The economy of Greece --
12. Athens in the age of Pericles --
13. Women, sexuality, and family life --
14. The Peloponnesian War --
15. The instability of Syracuse --
16. Socrates and the Thirty Tyrants --
17. The futility of war --
18. The Macedonian conquest --
19. Alexander the Great --
ACT III: The Hellenistic Period (323-30): Greeks, Macedonians, and Romans --
20. The successor kingdoms --
21. A time of adjustment --
22. The Greek cities in the New World --
23. Social life and intellectual culture --
24. The Roman conquest --
25. A feat of imagination.

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