Parker A History of Greece, 1300 to 30 BC

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-55933-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 440 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell History of the Ancient World

A History of Greece: 130030 BC, offers acomprehensive introduction to the foundational political history ofGreece, from the late Mycenaean Age through to the death ofCleopatra VII, the last Hellenistic monarch of Egypt.
* Introduces textual and archaeological evidence used byhistorians to reconstruct historical events during Greece'sBronze, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods
* Reveals the political and social structure of the Greek worldin the late Mycenaean period (thirteenth century BC) throughanalysis of the Linear B tablets, the oldest surviving records inGreek
* Features numerous references to original source materials,including various fragmentary papyri, inscriptions, coins, andother literary sources
* Provides extensive coverage of the Hellenistic period, andcovers areas excluded from most Greek history texts, including theGreek West
* Features judicious use of illustrations throughout, andconsiders instructors' teaching needs by structuring thelater sections to facilitate teaching a parallel course in RomanHistory
* Balances scholarship with a reader-friendly approach to createan accessible introduction to the political history of one of mostremarkable ancient civilizations and sophisticated periods of worldhistory

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parker, Victor

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures ix
List of Tables xii
List of Boxes xiii
Abbreviations and Reference Conventions xvi
Preface xxii
Introduction xxvii
1 The Geography of Greece 1
Part I: Bronze and "Dark Age": circa1300-800 BC 21
2 The Mycenaean Age 23
3 The End of the Bronze Age and the Great Migrations 46
4 Greece in the Later "Dark Age" (circa900-750 BC) 58
Part II: The Archaic Period: circa 800-479 BC73
5 Colonization 75
6 Sparta from the Messenian Wars to the Creation of thePeloponnesian League 93
7 Tyranny 106
8 Athens from Cylon to Cleisthenes 121
9 Persia and the Ionian Revolt 138
10 The Persian Wars 151
Part III: The Classical Period: 479-323 BC 169
11 The Athenian Empire 171
12 Sparta and Athens during the Pentecontaetia 182
13 From the Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War to the Peace ofNicias 196
14 From the Peace of Nicias to the Surrender of Athens 210
15 The Lacedaemonian Ascendancy in Greece 227
16 The Boeotian Ascendancy in Greece and the Second AthenianLeague 243
17 The West from the Sicilian Expedition to the Campaigns ofTimoleon 257
18 Philip of Macedon and the Conquest of Greece 272
19 Alexander the Great and the Conquest of Persia 293
Part IV: The Hellenistic Period: 323-30 BC 317
20 The Wars of the Diadochi 319
21 The Creation of the Hellenistic States 336
22 Sicily and the West from Agathocles to the First Punic War351
23 The Hellenistic World in Equilibrium 364
24 The Coming of Rome 387
25 Twilight of the Hellenistic World 409
Tables of Rulers 429
Glossary 434
Index 458

Über Autor(innen)

Victor Parker is Associate Professor of Classics in theUniversity of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He haspublished some fifty specialized articles in Greek, Roman, and NearEastern history as well as a commentary on the historianEphorus.