The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: January 1, 1997
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780140513356
Copyright date: 1996
First sentence: The history of Greece in the Classical and Hellenistic periods is extremely well documented, through the historical writings of Herodotos, Thucydides, Xenophon and others and in the many surviving fragments of other, now lost, works epitomized by the encyclopaedists of the Hellenistic and Roman periods, such as Diodoros, Strabo and Pliny.
Table of contents: title: Timelines; title: Part one : Crete, Mycenae and the Heroic Age.; title: Origins; title: King Minos and Knossos; title: The Mycenaean world; title: Bronze Age trade; title: The sea peoples controversy; title: The collapse of Mycenae; title: The Trojan wars; title: Minoan and Mycenaean art; title: Part two : Dark Age to Athenian ascendancy.; title: Dark Age Greece; title: Rise of the city-states; title: Migration and colonization; title: Egypt and Kyrenaica; title: The Greeks in Italy; title: Rise of the tyrants; title: Athens ascendant; title: The classical myths; title: Part three : The Persian rival.; title: Persia and the West; title: Kingdom of Macedonia; title: Persian campaigns I; title: Persian campaigns II; title: The continuing rivalry; title: The rise of Sparta; title: Ancient explorers; title: Greek literature and thought; title: Part four : Perikles to Philip.; title: Perikles and the Athenian Empire; title: Peloponnesian War : the Aegean; title: Peloponnesian War : Sicily; title: Sparta and Thebes; title: Kingdoms of Northern Greece; title: Decline of Athens; title: Philip and Macedonian expansion; title: Greek warfare; title: Part five : Alexander and after.; title: Campaigns of Alexander; title: Alexander the general; title: Alexander's spoils; title: Consolidation of the kingdoms; title: New kingdoms, new rivalries; title: Kingdoms in crisis; title: Roman conquest; title: Architecture of ancient Greece; title: Further reading