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Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander The Evidence.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Roisman, Joseph
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2011.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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)
  • 4.7 Settlers and Locals
  • 4.8 Selinus (651/0?)
  • 5 Aristocratic Power and Attitudes
  • 5.1 Aristocratic Power and Offices in Athens
  • 5.3 Aristocratic Exclusiveness
  • 5.3.A The Unworthy
  • 5.3.B Do Not Marry a Commoner
  • 5.4 Aristocratic Anxiety
  • 6 Archaic Tyranny
  • 6.1 How Tyrants Attained Power
  • 6.3 Cypselus' Tyranny in Corinth (ca. 650-625)
  • 6.3.A Cypselus' Harsh Tyranny
  • 6.3.B Cypselus' Mild Tyranny
  • 6.4 Periander's Tyranny in Corinth (625-585)
  • 6.6 A Failed Attempt at Tyranny in Athens: Cylon (632)
  • 7 Archaic and Classical Sparta
  • 7.2 The Messenian Wars (735-650) and the Conquered Population
  • 7.3 The Helots
  • 7.3.A Tyrtaeus on the Helots
  • 7.3.B The Helot System
  • 7.4 Eliminating Helots
  • 7.5 The Krypteia
  • 7.6 Lycurgus' Regulations
  • 7.8 The Spartan Government and the Great Rhetra
  • 7.8.A Tyrtaeus on the Spartan Government
  • 7.8.B Plutarch on Lycurgus' Rhetra
  • 7.9 Spartan Kingship
  • 7.11 The Spartan Gerousia (Council)
  • 7.12 The Ephors
  • 7.14 State and Family: The Scrutiny of Spartan Babies
  • 7.15 The Schooling of Boys
  • 7.17 Girls' Education and Rituals