Synopses & Reviews
This text is a concise history of Ancient Greece, from the Bronze Age through Alexander the Great. The text focuses on the interpretation of ancient sources, both written and visual. It teaches students to think "historically"by providing them with questions and suggestions for analysis as well as directed reading questions, and includes both current scholarship as well as a balance of political, social, cultural and military history. Suggested readings are found at the end of each chapter.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: Greek Environment and Prehistory
CHAPTER 2: Myth and Archaeology: Minoan Crete
CHAPTER 3: Bronze Age Greece
CHAPTER 4: From the Bronze Age to the Iron Age
CHAPTER 5: Archaic Greece: Renaissance and Revolution
CHAPTER 6: Sparta: An Alternative to Tyranny
CHAPTER 7: Archaic Athens: Crisis and Reform
CHAPTER 8: Archaic Ionia: Greeks and Persians
CHAPTER 9: The Persian Wars and the History of Herodotus
CHAPTER 10: Athens: Development of Empire and Democracy
CHAPTER 11: The Other Greeks: Women, Metics, Slaves
CHAPTER 12: Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War
CHAPTER 13: Greece in the Fourth Century B.C.
CHAPTER 14: Philip of Macedoa
CHAPTER 15: Alexander the Great