Ancient Greece: A New History

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An extensively illustrated introduction to ancient Greek history Ancient Greece: A New History is a new, single-authored survey of the ancient Greek world that brings the past to life with a fresh narrative and vivid images. Drawing on the latest archaeological research and textual evidence, award-winning teacher and scholar Jeremy McInerney shows that many of the issues that concerned the ancient Greeks―justice and inequality, nationalism and xenophobia, medicine and science―are relevant today. Key features include more than 200 color images; chapter-opening timelines, detailed maps and plans; chapter-ending illustrated “Spotlight” features; and instructor and student resources. 225 color, plus 47 line drawings Cover (Ancient Greece A New History) Front Matter Title Page Copyright Contents Preface Primary Sources: Archaeological Evidence and Written Texts Overview and Features of the Book A Note on Spelling and Dates Instructor and Student Resources Acknowledgments Timeline Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Study the Greeks? Cultures in Dialogue Truth and Beauty Democracy, Ancient and Modern Greek Architecture and Philosophy East versus West? Paideia Spotlight The Afterlife of Monsters Chapter 2 Early Greece and the Minoans: The Labyrinth and the Minotaur Greece in the Neolithic: The Origins of Complex Societies Connectedness and the Beginnings of Pottery The Third Millennium: The Bronze Age Minoan Crete Bull-leaping Minoan Religion Minoan Economy Beyond the Palaces Thera: A Minoan Settlement The Destruction of Thera The End of Minoan Culture Interpreting the Past Spotlight The Theran Frescoes: Art and Life in a Minoan Settlement Chapter 3 Mycenae: Rich in Gold Schliemann and the Creation of the Bronze Age The Origins of the People of the Shaft Graves The Mycenaean World Mycenaean Industry and Labor Linear B: Solving the Riddle Mycenaean Knossos Troy and Homer The Collapse of Mycenaean Culture Spotlight New Discoveries around Mycenaean Pylos Chapter 4 The Iron Age Center and Periphery in the Early Iron Age Society and Identity in the Iron Age Heroes and Villains Polis and Ethnos in the Eighth Century Monumental Temples and the Rule of Law A Greek Diaspora Communities, Foundations, and Identities Delphi and Greek Identity “Orientalizing” and Eastern Influence The Reinvention of Writing The Olympics Spotlight Epic, Vases, and the Symposium Chapter 5 The Archaic Age: Sparta Archaic Crisis: Wealth, Strife, and Tyranny Early Sparta Spartan Religion Spartan Exceptionalism The Great Rhetra Spartan Culture Women in Sparta Sparta and the Peloponnese Spotlight The Vix Krater Chapter 6 The Archaic Age: Athens Competition and Rivalry in the Archaic World The Rule of Law Solon’s Social Reforms Stasis and Tyranny After Solon The Legacy of Peisistratos The Fall of Tyranny in Athens Kleisthenes and the Foundation of Democracy Ostracism Spotlight The Political Reforms of Kleisthenes Chapter 7 Persia Greece on the Eve of the Persian Wars Who Were the Persians? The Origins of the Achaemenids Achaemenid Religion Administering an Empire Expansion and Empire Marathon Xerxes and the Invasion of Greece Thermopylae Salamis Plataia Aftermath of the Persian Wars Spotlight David’s Leonidas at Thermopylae Chapter 8 Democracy and Empire Introduction: From Ruin to Recovery Democratic Institutions The Ekklesia and Archonship The Boulê and the Areopagus Democracy in Principle and in Action The Lawcourts and Oratory The Imperial Democracy Delian League in Crisis A Peace of Kallias? Colonies and Cleruchies Colonies Cleruchies Coercion Spotlight The Lapis Primus and Recovering the Athenian Empire Chapter 9 Inclusion and Exclusion: Life in Periklean Athens Drama Origins of Drama Katharsis The Dionysia Comedy The Democracy of Drama The Akropolis The Parthenon and Propylaia The Erechtheion Symbols of Power Power and Exclusion Women in Classical Athens Pederasty Slavery Metics Spotlight Liturgy and Symposium Chapter 10 Religion and Philosophy: Belief and Knowledge in the Classical Age Polis-Religion Purification and Sacrifice Sacrifice Religion and Commerce Conventional Belief Eleusis Shared Beliefs and Scripture Asklepios and Hippokrates: The Splintering of Belief The Challenge of Presocratic Philosophy Protagoras and the Sophists Herodotos and Thucydides Spotlight The Oracle of Delphi Chapter 11 The Peloponnesian War Warfare and the Greeks The Hoplite Revolution Athenian Bellicosity Athenian Expansion, Spartan Resistance The Cause of War The Epidamnos Affair The Siege of Potidaia and the Megarian Decree The Archidamian War Athens in Crisis Kleon and the Sphakteria Campaign Melos The Sicilian Expedition The Dekelean War Democracy under Threat Spotlight Hoplites and Rowers Chapter 12 Panhellenism and the Rise of Philip Athens in Defeat Sokrates The Philosophy of Sokrates The Spartan Hegemony Athenian Diplomacy End of the Spartan Hegemony Regionalism and Panhellenism Philip of Macedon Marriage and War The Third Sacred War The Road to Chaironeia Spotlight Vergina: The Debate over Philip’s Tomb Chapter 13 Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age Alexander’s Rise The Campaign in Asia To Persia and Beyond Ruling the Achaemenid Empire The Eastern Provinces India and the Limit of Empire Death of Alexander and the Succession Crisis The Ptolemies Greek Kings, Egyptian Kingdom The Seleukids Pergamon The Coming of Rome The Roman War Machine and Hellenistic Diplomacy Expansion of the Roman Empire Spotlight The Image of Alexander Glossary Sources of Quotations Further Reading Picture Credits Index