Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece

Name: Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece
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ISBN: 9780521529297

ISBN-10: 0521529298

ISBN-13: 9780521529297

Edition: 2007

Authors: H. A. Shapiro

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The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece provides a wide-ranging synthesis of history, society, and culture during the formative period of Ancient Greece, from the Age of Homer in the late eighth century to the Persian Wars of 490-480 BC. In ten clearly written and succinct chapters, leading scholars from around the English-speaking world treat all aspects of the civilization of Archaic Greece, from social, political, and military history to early achievements in poetry, philosophy, and the visual arts. Archaic Greece was an age of experimentation and intellectual ferment that laid the foundations for much of Western thought and culture. Individual Greek city-states rose to great power and…

Book details

List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/7/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 354
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



List of Illustrations, Maps, and Tables


Contributors


Preface


Abbreviations


Introduction




History of Archaic Greece



Tyrants and Lawgivers




Polis, Community, and Ethnic Identity




Warfare and Hoplites




The Life Cycle in Archaic Greece




Literature and Philosophy



Homer, Hesiod, and the Epic Tradition




Archaic Greek Poetry




The Philosophers in Archaic Greek Culture




History and Material Culture



Colonization: Greece on the Move, 900-480




Delphi, Olympia, and the Art of Politics




The Human Figure in Early Greek Sculpture and Vase Painting



Index