Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander The Evidence.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2011.
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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