Ancient Greek Civilization
Blackwell Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-631-23235-3 (ISBN)
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This book is a survey of the history, literature, art, and philosophy of the ancient Greeks from the Bronze Age to the transformation of Greek culture during the Roman Empire. It tells the story of Greek civilization from the Bronze Age to the transformation of Greek culture during the Roman Empire. It surveys the impressive history, literature, art, and philosophy of the ancient Greeks. It shows how the ancient Greeks used these forms of cultural expression to reinvent themselves and how Greek civilization has been continually reinvented to the present day. Its features include maps, illustrations, timelines, a glossary, a guide to ancient Greek writers and a bibliography.
David Sansone is Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Aeschylean Metaphors for Intellectual Activity (1975), and Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport (1988), and the editor of Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris (1981) and Plutarch - The Lives of Aristeides and Cato. He is on the Editorial Board of Illinois Classical Studies, of which he was the editor from 1993 to 2000, and on the Editorial Board of the journals Classical Philology and the Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
List of Figures.List of Maps.List of Timelines.Foreword: Looking Backward.1. Greece in the Bronze Age.2. Iron Age Greece.3. The Poems of Hesiod and Homer.4. Poetry and Sculpture of the Archaic Period.5. Symposia, Seals, and Ceramics in the Archaic Period.6. The Birth of Philosophy and the Persian Wars.7. Setting the Stage for Democracy.8. History and Tragedy in the Fifth Century BC.9. The Peloponnesian War: A Tale of Thucydides.10. Stage and Lawcourt in Late Fifth-Century BC Athens.11. The Transformation of the Greek World in the Fourth Century BC.12. Greek Culture in the Hellenistic Period.Afterword: Looking Forward.Glossary.Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.10.2003 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 17 |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 600 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-631-23235-4 / 0631232354 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-631-23235-3 / 9780631232353 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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