Greeks An Introduction to Their Culture

Name: Greeks An Introduction to Their Culture
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ISBN: 9780415469371

ISBN-10: 0415469376

ISBN-13: 9780415469371

Edition: 2nd 1995 (Revised)

Authors: Robin Sowerby

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Book details

List price: $39.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 6/26/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of figures and tables


Preface



The Homeric World


Bronze Age Greece


Minoan


Mycenaean


Homer and history


The Iliad


The Odyssey


Homeric ideals: civilized social living


Homeric ideals: poetry and art


The Greek love of beauty and Homer's style



History


The main historical sources


The city state before the Persian Wars


The Persian Wars


Democracy and empire: Periclean Athens


The Peloponnesian War


Spartan hegemony and the Second Athenian League


The rise of Phillip of Macedon


The opposition of Demosthenes


Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic age



Religion and Social Life


Religion


The household


Women


Slaves


The gymnasium


Games


The symposium


Homosexuality



Literature


Introduction


Tragedy: festivals and conventions


Aeschylus (525-456)


Sophocles (c. 496-406)


Euripides (c. 485-406)


Old Comedy: Aristophanes (c. 450-c. 385)


Later comedy


Oratory and prose


Hellenistic literature: Alexandrianism



Philosophy


The Presocratics


Socrates (469-399) and the sophists


Plato (c. 427-347)


Aristotle (384-322)


Hellenistic philosophy: post-Aristotelians



Art


Geometric beginnings


The Archaic period


The Classical period


The Hellenistic period


Appendices



Chronological table



List of translations cited in the text



Glossary


Suggestions for further reading


Index