Greek people
By: Robert B. Kebric, University of Louisville
Edition: Third edition, [advance reader's edition]
Publisher: Mayfield Publishing Company
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Mountain View, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780767417068
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: Biography
Notes: "Free professional copy, not intended for sale"--Back cover.

Includes chronology (pages xvii-xxi).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-259) and index.
Table of contents: title: TABLE OF CONTENTS; title: After Homer; title: A new age finds its voice: Archilochus of Paros, Poet, Soldier, Illegitimate Son; title: A World of Iron and Tyrants: Hesiod the Bard, Polycrates of Samos, and Eupalinus the Engineer; title: The Panhellenic Games: Phayllus of Croton: An early sports hero; title: Eros Unchained: Bisexuality among the Greeks-Sappho of Lesbos, Harmodius and Aristogiton of Athens, Theodotus and his lovers; title: The Problem with Persia: East against west-Polygnotus, politics, and paintbrushes; title: A gilded edge for a golden age: Aspasia the Courtesan in Periclean Athens; title: Rowdies, rogues, and robbers: the other side of the law in fifth-and fourth-century Athens: Eratosthenes the adulterer, Conon the Thug, "Clytemnestra" the poisoner, Diogeiton the embezzler, and Phormio the con-artist; title: Hellenistic science, technology, and fantasy.