Greek society
By: Frank J. Frost.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: D.C. Heath
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Lexington, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.; Greece -- History -- 146 B.C.-323 A.D.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: The Mycenaean prologue. The Mycenaean environment -- Mycenaean social organization -- The Mycenaean economy -- The end of the Mycenaean world -- Mycenaean civilization in retrospect -- The Dark Age and the Lyric Age. The farm -- The town -- The shore -- The age of colonization -- The Lyric Age : poets and philosophers -- Contributions of the Lyric Age -- The world of the Greek polis. Historical background, 550 - 336 B.C. -- Sparta : an experiment in elitist communism -- Ionia : the Greeks of Asia Minor -- Athens : the education of Hellas -- The economies of the Greek world. The means of exchange -- Real property -- The rise of commercial economies : trade -- Banking and other forms of investment -- Greek society in the age of the polis. Slaves -- Women -- Travelers and resident aliens -- Farmer and burgher : middle-class attitudes -- Some Greek people. The farmer : Hesiod -- The demagogue : Cleon of Athens -- The doctor : Ctesias of Cnidrus -- The hetairi : Aspasia and Neaira -- The explorer : Pytheas of Massalia -- The Hellenistic world. The political settlement, 323-272 B.C. -- Egypt under the Ptolemies -- Alexandria : the Hellenistic city -- The empire of the Seleucids -- Old Greece : Macedon and the new federalism -- The Greek world under Roman rule. Greece in the Roman empire : the economy -- Greece in the Roman empire : then triumph of Hellenism -- The law and the logos : Christianity and the Greeks -- The fall of Rome and the survival of Greece -- Some more Greek people. The revolutionary : Cleomenes of Sparta -- The bureaucrat : Tiberius of Smyrna -- The imposter : Alexander of Abonuteichos -- The philosopher : Hypatia of Alexandria -- Epilogue.