Umfang:
1 online resource (690 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781118300947
Serie:
New York Academy of Sciences Series v.15
Inhalt:
Intro -- Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander: The Evidence -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- How to Use This Book -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Greek Weights, Measures, Coins, and the Athenian Calendar -- Timeline -- Introduction: The Evidence for Greek History and Culture -- I The Archaeological Evidence -- I.1 Pottery -- II Coins -- III The Written Evidence -- III.1 Investigation of Sources and Fragments of Lost Historians -- III.2 Herodotus -- III.3 Thucydides -- III.4 Xenophon -- III.5 Diodorus of Sicily -- III.6 Plutarch -- III.7 The Attic Orators -- 1 The World of Homer -- 1.1 A Funeral Scene on a Dipylon Vase -- 1.2 The Homeric Household (Oikos) -- 1.5 The Measure of Happiness -- 1.6 A Household in Trouble -- 1.7 Households and Community -- 1.8 Homeric Leaders -- 1.9 Kings, Council, and Assembly -- 1.11 Homeric Values: Honor and Excellence -- 1.12 Reciprocity and Guest-Friendship (Xenia) -- 2 The World of Hesiod -- 2.1 Individual, Communal, and Divine Justice -- 2.2 Women and Pandora's Jar -- 2.4 The Value of Labor -- 2.6 The Orientalizing Period -- 3 The Early Greek Polis (City-State) and the Ethnos -- 3.1 The Homeric Polis -- 3.3 An Early Settlement on Andros (Zagora -- ca. 700) -- 3.5 Ancient Views of the Origins of the Polis -- 3.5.A Theseus' Unification of Attica -- 3.5.B Aristotle on the Evolution of the Polis -- 3.6 Ethnos: The Ionians -- 3.6.A Ion's Ancestors -- 3.6.B Ionians in the Peloponnese -- 3.6.C The History of the Ionians -- 4 Settlements Across the Sea: Greek "Colonization" -- 4.1 Greek Settlements in the Western Mediterranean -- 4.2 The Settlement at Pithecoussae (ca. 750) -- 4.2.A The Settling of Pithecoussae -- 4.2.B The "Nestor Cup" -- 4.4 The Foundation of Cyrene (631) -- 4.6 Mother-City and Colony: Corinth, Corcyra, and Epidamnus (435).
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781118300909
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781118300909
Sprache:
Englisch
Mehr zum Autor:
Roisman, Joseph 1946-
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