Maps; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Timeline; 1 A Small, Far-Off Land; Historical Sketch; Why Study the Greeks?; Who Were the Greeks?; The Structure of This Book: History, Culture, and Society; Key Terms Further Reading; 2 Country and People; Greek Geography, Climate, and Agriculture; Demography; Migration; Health and Disease; Nutrition; Economic Growth in Ancient Greece; Key Terms Further Reading; 3 The Greeks at Home; Gender Relationships: Ideals and Realities; Sexuality; Adults and Children; Key Terms Further Reading; 4 The Greeks Before History, 12,000-1200 bc; The End of the Last Ice Age, 13,000-9500 bc; The Origins of Agriculture, 9500-5000 bc; Neolithic Society and Economy, 5000-3000 bc; The Early Bronze Age, 3000-2300 bc; The Middle Bronze Age, 2300-1800 bc; The Age of Minoan Palaces, 2000-1600 bc; The Rise of Mycenaean Greece, 1750-1500 bc; The End of Minoan Civilization, 1600-1400 bc; Mycenaean Greece: Archaeology, Linear B, and Homer; The End of the Bronze Age, c. 1200 bc; Key Terms Further Reading; 5 The Dark Age, 1200-800 bc; The Collapse of the Old States; Life Among the Ruins; Dark Age Heroes; Art and Trade in the Dark Age; The Eighth-Century bc Renaissance: Economy; The Eighth-Century bc Renaissance: Society; The Eighth-Century bc Renaissance: Culture; Conclusion; Key Terms Further Reading; 6 Homer; The Homeric Question; Milman Parry and Oral Poetry; The Oral Poet in Homer; Heinrich Schliemann and the Trojan War; The Tragic Iliad; Homer and the Invention of Plot; The Comic Odyssey; Odysseus and Homer; Key Terms Further Reading; 7 Religion and Myth; Definitions of Religion and Myth; Hesiod’s Myth of the Origin of the Gods; Greek Religion in History; Forms of Greek Religious Practice; Hesiod’s Myth of Sacrifice; Gods and Other Mysterious Beings; Chthonic Religion; The Ungrateful Dead and the Laying of the Ghost; Ecstatic and Mystical Religion; Conclusion; Key Terms Further Reading; 8 Archaic Greece, 800-480 bc: Economy, Society, Politics; Government by Oligarchy; Elite Culture; The Tyrants; The Structure of Archaic States; Conclusion; Key Terms Further Reading; 9 The Archaic Cultural Revolution, 800-480 bc; Natural Philosophy in Miletus; Pythagoras: Philosophy and Social Science in the West; Hecataeus, Herodotus, and Historie; Lyric Poetry; Material Culture; Art and Thought in Sixth-Century bc Greece; Key Terms Further Reading; 10 A Tale of Two Archaic Cities: Sparta and Athens, 800-480 bc; Sparta; Spartiates, Perioikoi, and Helots; Plutarch’s Sparta; Spartan Government; Athens; The Seventh-Century bc Crisis; Solon; Pisistratus and the Consequences of Solon’s Reforms; Demokratia; Athens Submits to Persia; Key Terms Further Reading; 11 Persia and the Greeks, 550-490 bc; Empires of the Ancient Near East; Cyrus and the Rise of Persia, 559-530 bc; Cambyses and Darius, 530-521 bc; Persia’s Northwest Frontier and the Ionian Revolt, 521-494 bc; The Battle of Marathon, 490 bc; Key Terms Further Reading; 12 The Great War, 480-479 bc; Storm Clouds in the West; Storm Clouds in the East; The Storm Breaks in the West: The Battle of Himera, 480 bc; The Storm Breaks in the East: The Battle of Thermopylae, 480 bc; The Fall of Athens; The Battle of Salamis; The End of the Storm: Battles of Plataea and Mycale, 479 bc; Conclusion; Key Terms Further Reading; 13 Democracy and Empire: Athens and Syracuse, 479-431 bc; The Expansion of the Syracusan State, 479-461 bc; The Western Democracies, 461-433 bc; Economic Growth in Western Greece, 479-433 bc; Cimon and the Creation of the Athenian Empire, 478-461 bc; The First Peloponnesian War, 460-446 bc; Pericles and the Consolidation of Athenian Power, 446-433 bc; Economic Growth in the Aegean; The Edge of the Abyss, 433-431 bc; Key Terms Further Reading; 14 Art and Thought in the Fifth Century bc; Philosophy; Material Culture; Key Terms Further Reading; 15 Fifth-Century bc Drama; Tragedy; The City Dionysia; The Theater of Dionysus; Narrative Structure; Character and Other Dimensions of Tragedy; Tragic Plots; Conclusion; The Origins of Comedy; The Plots of Old Comedy; The Structures of Old Comedy; Conclusion; Key Terms Further Reading; 16 The Peloponnesian War and Its Aftermath, 431-399 bc; The Archidamian War, 431-421 bc; The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition, 421-413 bc; Sicily and the Carthaginian War, 412-404 bc; The Ionian War, 412-404 bc; Aftermath, 404-399 bc; Conclusion; Key Terms Further Reading; 17 The Greeks Between Persia and Carthage, 399-360 bc; Sparta’s Empire, 404-360 bc; Economy, Society, and War; Sparta’s Collapse, 371 bc; Anarchy in the Aegean, 371-360 bc; Carthage and Syracuse, 404-360 bc; The Golden Age of Syracuse, 393-367 bc; Anarchy in the West, 367-345 bc; Conclusion; Key Terms Further Reading; 18 Greek Culture in the Fourth Century bc; Material Culture; Plato; Aristotle; Conclusion; Key Terms Further Reading; 19 Philip and Alexander the Great, Warlords of Macedon; Macedonia Before Philip II; Philip’s Struggle for Survival, 359-357 bc; Philip Consolidates His Position, 357-352 bc; Philip Seeks a Greek Peace, 352-346 bc; The Struggle for a Greek Peace, 346-338 bc; Philip’s End, 338-336 bc; Alexander the King; The Conquest of Persia, 334-330 bc; Key Terms Further Reading; 20 Alexander the God; The Fall of the Great King Darius, 331-330 bc; Alexander in the East, 330-324 bc; War in India, 327-326 bc; The Long March Home, 326-324 bc; The Last Days, 324-323 bc; Conclusion; Key Terms Further Reading; 21 The Greek Kingdoms in the Hellenistic Century, 323-220 bc; The Wars of the Successors, 323-301 bc; The Hellenistic World After the Battle of Ipsus; The Seleucid Empire; Ptolemaic Egypt; The Antigonids: Macedonia; Conclusion; Key Terms Further Reading; 22 The Greek Poleis in the Hellenistic Century, 323-220 bc; Impoverishment and Depopulation in Mainland Greece; Athens in Decline; Sparta’s Counterrevolution; The Western Greeks: Agathocles of Syracuse (361-289/8 bc); Pyrrhus of Epirus; Hellenistic Society: The Weakening of Egalitarianism; Conclusion; Key Terms Further Reading; 23 Hellenistic Culture, 323-30 bc; Hellenistic Historians; Poetry; Material Culture; Hellenistic Philosophy; Medicine; Quantitative Science in the Hellenistic Age; Conclusion; Key Terms Further Reading; 24 The Coming of Rome, 220-30 bc; The Rise of Rome, 753-280 bc; Rome, Carthage, and the Western Greeks, 280-200 bc; Rome Breaks the Hellenistic Empires, 200-167 bc; Consequences of the Wars: The Greeks; Consequences of the Wars: The Romans; Rome’s Military Revolution; The Agony of the Aegean, 99-70 bc; Pompey’s Greek Settlement, 70-62 bc; The End of Hellenistic Egypt, 61-30 bc; Aftermath; Key Terms Further Reading; 25 Conclusion; The Bronze Age (ca. 3000-1200 bc; Chapter 4); The Dark Age (ca. 1200-800 bc; Chapter 5); The Archaic Period (c. 800-480 bc; Chapters 6-10); The Classical Period (c. 480-323 bc; Chapters 11-18); The Macedonian Takeover (c. 350-323 bc; Chapters 19-22); The Hellenistic Period (c. 323-30 bc; Chapters 22-24); Conclusion; Pronunciation Guide; Credits; Index and Glossary
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