Format:
1 online resource (417 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781119098126
Series Statement:
New York Academy of Sciences Series
Content:
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.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781119098157
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781119098157
Language:
English
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