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Title

The ancient Greeks : new perspectives / Stephanie Lynn Budin.

Author

Budin, Stephanie Lynn.

Publication

Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2004.

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Description

xiii, 469 p. : ill., maps; 27 cm.

Summary

"A scholarly, comprehensive work that engages the reader and makes history a pleasure, this book covers the whole of Ancient Greece - 3,000 years of art, culture, literature, politics, war, and empire. Until now, histories of Ancient Greece were either accessible to the general reader but out-of-date or current but too daunting for anyone but the specialist." "Using the full range of resources of art history, linguistics, archaeology, and literature, this book details the familiar - mythic heroes; famous scholars, scientists, and warriors; classical architecture - and introduces the obscure - the origins of the Greeks and their culture, including their first written language, Linear B cuneiform. More than a recitation of facts, the book provides an introduction to historical technique: How do historians know what they know; where do they disagree and why?"--Jacket.

Series Statement

Understanding ancient civilizations

Uniform Title

Understanding ancient civilizations.

Subject

Greece > Civilization > To 146 B.C

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-449) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- What did the Greeks contribute to modern society? -- pt. 2. Greek civilization -- 2. Location of Greek civilization and environmental setting -- The Greek mainland -- Crete -- Cyclades -- Asia Minor's West coast -- Cyprus -- 3. Historical and chronological setting -- The history of Greek studies -- Sources for the study of Greek history -- Chronology -- 4. Origins, growth, and decline of Greek civilization -- Crete -- The mainland -- The Dark Age -- The eighth-century Renaissance and the Archaic Age -- The classical period, from the Persian invasions to the death of Alexander -- The rise and fall of the Hellenistic kingdoms : 323-30 B.C.E. -- 5. Economics -- Palace economies of the Aegean Bronze Age -- Trade in the late Bronze Age -- The Dark Age -- The early emporia -- Archaic and classical Greece -- 6. Social organization and social structure -- Divisions -- Unions -- Groups -- 7. Politics -- Minoan Crete : kings? queens? priestesses? priests? -- Bronze Age Greece -- The Dark Age and "epic" kingship -- The Archaic Age : synoecism, aristocracy, and tyranny -- Forms of rule in the classical period : oligarchy and democracy -- Politics beyond the polis -- Alexander and the Hellenistic monarchies -- Ancient Greek law -- 8. Religion and ideology -- Minoan religion -- Mycenaean religion -- Greek religion in the historic periods -- 9. Material culture -- Architecture -- Sculpture -- Pottery -- Clothing -- Arms and armor -- The art of death -- 10. Intellectual accomplishments -- Literature -- Science -- Philosophy -- pt. 3. Current assessments -- 11. Major controversies and future directions in the study of Greek civilization -- Excavation -- Linear A -- Minoan deities -- The Dark Age -- Non-Athenian culture -- Foreign relations -- Women in ancient Greece -- Glossary -- Chronology.

ISBN

• 1576078140 (Hardback : alk. paper)
• 1576078159 (e-book)

LCCN

2004017620^^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library