Ancient Greece : a history in eleven cities
(2009)
By:
Cartledge, Paul
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
938/CARTLEDGE,P
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2009]
©2009
©2009
DESCRIPTION
xv, 261 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780199233380 (hardback acid-free paper), 0199233381 (hardback acid-free paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Pt. 1, Prehistory. Cnossos ; Mycenae -- Pt. 2, Early history (to 500 BCE) : Dark Age and Archaic. Argos ; Miletus ; Massalia ; Sparta -- Pt. 3, Classical (500-330 BCE). Athens, Syracuse, Thebes -- Pt. 4, Hellenistic. Alexandria -- Pt. 5, Retrospect and prospect. Byzantion ; Epilogue
Paul Cartledge uses the history of eleven major Greek cities to illuminate the most important and informative themes in Ancient Greek history, from the first documented use of the Greek language around 1400 BCE, through the glories of the Classical and Hellenistic periods, to the foundation of the Byzantine empire in around CE 330