Research Catalog

Title

Hellas, the civilizations of ancient Greece / Keith Branigan, Michael Vickers ; foreword by John Boardman.

Author

Branigan, Keith.

Publication

New York : McGraw-Hill, c1980.

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Additional Authors

• Vickers, Michael J.
• Vickers, Michael J.,

Description

224 p. : ill. (some col.); 31 cm.

Subject

Greece > Civilization > To 146 B.C

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 218.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. Introduction -- three civilizations -- the land and the sea -- the surviving testimony -- archaeology: the past rediscovered -- Olympia -- a continuing search -- II. Kings of the Sea -- in the beginning -- toward civilization -- the great palaces -- how a palace worked -- anatomy of a palace -- an enduring enigma -- Minoan religion -- country life -- Minoan master craftsmen -- towns and harbors -- the empire of Minos -- Thera: a Minoan Pompeii -- III. Heroes and Men -- the first Greeks -- the Mycenean dynasties -- heroic burials -- Agamemnon's Mycenae -- the kingdom of Nestor -- Mycenaean bureaucrats -- the coming of the gods -- Mycenaean society -- country life -- travel and trade -- heroes at war -- Troy: the facts -- The Trojan war -- the collapse -- invasion -- the survivors -- the Sea Peoples -- the coming of Iron
• IV. The Age of Iron -- the idea of Greekness -- origin of the city-state -- tyrants, oligarchs, and democrats -- hero cults -- the alphabet -- archaic literature -- archaic sculpture -- archaic art: the oriental influence -- money -- the Greek world -- menace from the east -- the battle of marathon -- the Persians defeated -- Themistocles -- V. The Rules of Athens -- the Athenian empire -- Attica: the setting -- Pericles and the rebuilding of Athens -- the Acropolis -- festivals and religious life -- Athena and her Peers -- how to biuld a Greek temple -- the Agora: the civic center of Athens -- men at work -- sculpture in bronze -- Phidia's workshop -- individual painting styles -- women in a man's world -- Greek dinner parties -- classical drama -- the great philosophers -- the Peloponnesian war -- Magna Graecia -- Gela: a Greek colony -- the Athenian disaster at Syracuse -- The rise of Macedon -- the subjection of Greece -- Alexander the Great -- the Greek themselves.

ISBN

0070072299

LCCN

^^^80018306^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library