The Ancient Greeks
Subtitle: New Perspectives (Understanding Ancient Civilizations Series)
Contributors: John Weeks (Editor)
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: November 23, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 469
ISBN-13: 9781576078143
Subjects: Classical Greek & Roman archaeology; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; History: World; Greece; History; History - General History; Ancient Greece; To 146 B.C; Ancient - Greece; History / World; Civilization; World - General
Table of contents: title: Introduction. What did the Greeks contribute to modern society? -- Location of Greek civilization and environmental setting. The Greek mainland -- Crete -- Cyclades -- Asia Minor’s west coast -- Cyprus -- Historical and chronological setting. The history of Greek studies -- Sources for the study of Greek history -- Chronology -- Origins, growth, and decline of Greek civilization -- Crete -- The mainland -- The Dark Age -- The eighth-century renaissance and the archaic age -- The classical period : from the Persian invasions to the death of Alexander -- The rise and fall of the Hellenistic kingdoms : 323-30 B.C.E. -- Economics. Palace economies of the Aegean Bronze Age -- Trade in the late Bronze Age -- The Dark Age -- The early emporia -- Archaic and classical Greece -- Social organization and social structure. Divisions -- Unions -- Groups -- Politics. Minoan Crete: kings? Queens? Priestesses? Priests? -- Bronze Age Greece -- The Dark Age and "epic" kingship -- The archaic age : synoecism, aristocracy, and tyranny -- Forms of rule in the classical period : oligarchy and democracy -- Politics beyond the polis -- Alexander and the Hellenistic monarchies -- Ancient Greek law -- Religion and ideology -- Minoan religion -- Mycenaean religion -- Greek religion in the historic periods -- Material culture. Architecture -- Sculpture -- Pottery -- Clothing -- Arms and armor -- The art of death -- Intellectual accomplishments. Literature -- Science -- Philosophy -- Major controversies and future directions in the study of Greek civilization. Excavation -- Linear A -- Minoan deities -- The Dark Age -- Non-Athenian culture -- Foreign relations -- Women in ancient Greece -- Glossary -- Chronology.