Ancient Greek Civilization (eBook)

David Sansone (Autor)

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2016 | 3. Auflage
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-119-09814-0 (ISBN)

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The third edition of Ancient Greek Civilization is a concise, engaging introduction to the history and culture of ancient Greece from the Minoan civilization to the age of the Roman Empire.

• Explores the evolution and development of Greek art, literature, politics, and thought across history, as well as the ways in which these were affected by Greek interaction with other cultures
• Now includes additional illustrations and maps, updated notes and references throughout, and an expanded discussion of the Hellenistic period
• Weaves the latest scholarship and archeological excavations into the narrative at an appropriate level for undergraduates

David Sansone is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a former editor of Illinois Classical Studies, served on the editorial boards of Classical Philology and Bryn Mawr Classical Review, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the American Philological Association. While his research focuses on Greek literature of the Classical Period, his publications include work on such subjects as textual criticism, theories of the origin of sport, Bronze Age iconography, John Milton, and Richard Wagner. He is the author of Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport (1988), Plutarch: Lives of Aristeides and Cato (1989), and Greek Drama and the Invention of Rhetoric (Wiley Blackwell, 2012).

Inhalt

ANCIENT GREEK CIVILIZATION 3
CONTENTS 7
FIGURES 9
MAPS 13
TIMELINES 15
FOREWORD LOOKING BACKWARD 17
Reinventing Ancient Greek Civilization 17
Ancient Greece in Perspective: Time 22
Ancient Greece in Perspective: Space 26
Zetemata: Questions for Discussion 29
Recommended for Further Reading 30
Suggested Internet Resources 30
1 THE GREEKS AND THE BRONZE AGE 33
Cycladic Civilization 37
Minoan Civilization 40
The Greeks Speak Up 43
The Emergence of Mycenaean Civilization 46
The End of Mycenaean Civilization 56
Zetemata: Questions for Discussion 59
Recommended for Further Reading 59
Suggested Internet Resources 60
2 IRON AGEGREECE 61
Dark Age Ceramic Ware 63
The Invention of the Alphabet 69
The Age of Expansion 71
The Polis 73
The Olympic Games 76
Zetemata: Questions for Discussion 79
Recommended for Further Reading 79
Suggested Internet Resources 80
3 THE POEMS OF HESIOD AND HOMER 81
The Poems of Hesiod 82
The Development of Hero Cult 87
The Poems of Homer 91
Zetemata: Questions for Discussion 97
Recommended for Further Reading 97
Suggested Internet Resources 98
4 POETRY AND SCULPTURE OF THE ARCHAIC PERIOD 99
The Human Figure in Archaic Art 100
Lyric Poetry of Archaic Greece 108
Zetemata: Questions for Discussion 116
Recommended for Further Reading 117
Suggested Internet Resources 118
5 SYMPOSIA, SEALS, AND CERAMICS IN THE ARCHAIC PERIOD 119
The Symposium 120
Seals 123
Tyranny 127
Ceramics 132
Zetemata: Questions for Discussion 135
Recommended for Further Reading 136
Suggested Internet Resources 137
6 THE BIRTH OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE PERSIAN WARS 139
Miletus and the Beginnings of Philosophy 140
The Agora 143
The Ionian Revolt (499–494 bc) 144
The Persian Wars: Marathon 147
The Persian Wars: Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea 150
Zetemata: Questions for Discussion 155
Recommended for Further Reading 155
Suggested Internet Resources 156
7 SETTING THE STAGE FOR DEMOCRACY 157
The Development of Spartan Oligarchy 161
The Development of Democracy in Athens: Solon 163
Other Persons: Slavery and Democracy 165
The Development of Democracy in Athens: Cleisthenes 167
Ostracism 169
The Delian League 171
The Dionysia and the Drama of Aeschylus 173
Zetemata: Questions for Discussion 177
Recommended for Further Reading 177
Suggested Internet Resources 178
8 HISTORY AND TRAGEDY IN THE FIFTH CENTURY 179
Herodotus and the Invention of History 180
Books and Readers 186
Sophocles 188
Other Persons: Women and Athenian Democracy 194
Zetemata: Questions for Discussion 197
Recommended for Further Reading 197
Suggested Internet Resources 198
9 THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR: A TALE OF THUCYDIDES 199
Thucydides and the Writing of the Peloponnesian War 201
Diagnosis and Prognosis 207
The Invention of “the Classical” 210
Zetemata: Questions for Discussion 220
Recommended for Further Reading 221
Suggested Internet Resources 222
10 STAGE AND LAW COURT IN LATE FIFTH-CENTURY ATHENS 223
Euripides 224
Aristophanes 228
Socrates 234
Zetemata: Questions for Discussion 241
Recommended for Further Reading 241
Suggested Internet Resources 242
11 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE GREEK WORLD IN THE FOURTH CENTURY 243
Plato’s Bright Ideas 245
Attic Oratory in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries 250
Philip II of Macedon and the Subjugation of Greece 254
Alexander the Great and the Conquest of Asia 257
Zetemata: Questions for Discussion 261
Recommended for Further Reading 261
Suggested Internet Resources 262
12 GREEK CULTURE IN THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD 265
Political Life and the Polis 266
Hellenistic Literature 273
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics 281
Hellenistic Art 285
Zetemata: Questions for Discussion 292
Recommended for Further Reading 292
Suggested Internet Resources 293
AFTERWORD LOOKING FORWARD 295
Later Greek Literature: Poetry 298
Later Greek Literature: Oratory 300
A Greek Writing about Romans and a Roman Writing in Greek 303
East Is East and West Is Not 306
Zetemata: Questions for Discussion 312
Recommended for Further Reading 313
Suggested Internet Resources 314
GLOSSARY 315
INDEX 319
EULA 335

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.9.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Ancient & Classical Greek & Hellenistic History • Ancient & Classical History • Antike u. klassische Geschichte • Antiquity • Archäologie • archaeology • archaic period • Archäologie • birth of democracy • Byzantine • Classical Greece</p> • Classical Studies • Greek & Roman Archaeology • Griechenland /Alte Geschichte • Griechische u. Römische Archäologie • Griechische u. Römische Archäologie • Hellenistic period • Hellenistische Geschichte, Geschichte der griechischen Antike • Hesiod • Homer • Humanistische Studien • <p>Ancient Greece • Minoans • Peloponnesian War • Thucydides
• ISBN-10: 1-119-09814-9 / 1119098149
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-09814-0 / 9781119098140