Ancient Greek Civilization.

Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- FOREWORD LOOKING BACKWARD -- Reinventing Ancient Greek Civilization -- Ancient Greece in Perspective: Time -- Ancient Greece in Perspective: Space -- Zetemata: Questions for Discussion -- Recommended for Further Reading -- Suggested Internet Resources -- 1 THE GREEKS AND THE BRONZE AGE -- Cycladic Civilization -- Minoan Civilization -- The Greeks Speak Up -- The Emergence of Mycenaean Civilization -- The Character of Mycenaean Civilization -- The End of Mycenaean Civilization -- Zetemata: Questions for Discussion -- Recommended for Further Reading -- Suggested Internet Resources -- 2 IRON AGE GREECE -- Dark Age Ceramic Ware -- The Invention of the Alphabet -- The Age of Expansion -- The Polis -- The Olympic Games -- Zetemata: Questions for Discussion -- Recommended for Further Reading -- Suggested Internet Resources -- 3 THE POEMS OF HESIOD AND HOMER -- The Poems of Hesiod -- The Development of Hero Cult -- The Poems of Homer -- Zetemata: Questions for Discussion -- Recommended for Further Reading -- Suggested Internet Resources -- 4 POETRY AND SCULPTURE OF THE ARCHAIC PERIOD -- The Human Figure in Archaic Art -- Lyric Poetry of Archaic Greece -- Zetemata: Questions for Discussion -- Recommended for Further Reading -- Suggested Internet Resources -- 5 SYMPOSIA, SEALS, AND CERAMICS IN THE ARCHAIC PERIOD -- The Symposium -- Seals -- Tyranny -- Ceramics -- Zetemata: Questions for Discussion -- Recommended for Further Reading -- Suggested Internet Resources -- 6 THE BIRTH OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE PERSIAN WARS -- Miletus and the Beginnings of Philosophy -- The Agora -- The Ionian Revolt (499-494 BC) -- The Persian Wars: Marathon -- The Persian Wars: Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea -- Zetemata: Questions for Discussion -- Recommended for Further Reading -- Suggested Internet Resources.

7 SETTING THE STAGE FOR DEMOCRACY -- The Development of Spartan Oligarchy -- The Development of Democracy in Athens: Solon -- Other Persons: Slavery and Democracy -- The Development of Democracy in Athens: Cleisthenes -- Ostracism -- The Delian League -- The Dionysia and the Drama of Aeschylus -- Zetemata: Questions for Discussion -- Recommended for Further Reading -- Suggested Internet Resources -- 8 HISTORY AND TRAGEDY IN THE FIFTH CENTURY -- Herodotus and the Invention of History -- Books and Readers -- Sophocles -- Other Persons: Women and Athenian Democracy -- Zetemata: Questions for Discussion -- Recommended for Further Reading -- Suggested Internet Resources -- 9 THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR: A TALE OF THUCYDIDES -- Thucydides and the Writing of the Peloponnesian War -- Diagnosis and Prognosis -- The Invention of "the Classical" -- Zetemata: Questions for Discussion -- Recommended for Further Reading -- Suggested Internet Resources -- 10 STAGE AND LAW COURT IN LATE FIFTH-CENTURY ATHENS -- Euripides -- Aristophanes -- Socrates -- Zetemata: Questions for Discussion -- Recommended for Further Reading -- Suggested Internet Resources -- 11 THE TRANSFOR­MATION OF THE GREEK WORLD IN THE FOURTH CENTURY -- Plato's Bright Ideas -- Attic Oratory in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries -- Philip II of Macedon and the Subjugation of Greece -- Alexander the Great and the Conquest of Asia -- Zetemata: Questions for Discussion -- Recommended for Further Reading -- Suggested Internet Resources -- 12 GREEK CULTURE IN THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD -- Political Life and the Polis -- Hellenistic Literature -- Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics -- Hellenistic Art -- Zetemata: Questions for Discussion -- Recommended for Further Reading -- Suggested Internet Resources -- AFTERWORD LOOKING FORWARD -- GLOSSARY -- INDEX -- EULA.

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