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A Brief History of Ancient Greece
Politics, Society and Culture
Second Edition
Sarah B Pomeroy, Stanley M Burstein, Walter Donlan, and Jennifer Tolbert Roberts
400 pages
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16 colour halftones, 106 black and white halftones, 35 line illustrations
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234x191mm
978-0-19-537235-9
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Paperback
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26 February 2009
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- Provides balanced coverage of political, military, social, cultural, and economic history
- Brief enough to be used alongside other books in Greek Civilization, Greek and Roman Civilization, or Western Civilization courses
- Presents the collaboration of 4 scholars who are experts in different areas of Greek history
- Incorporates the most recent discoveries in archeology, comparative anthropology, and social history
- Covers the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic era
- Revised art program featuring 125 black and white photographs and illustrations
- With a timeline and introduction providing a bird's-eye view of Greek history
- Excerpts from ancient documents appear in boxes throughout the text
- Selective, up-to-date recommendations for further reading
- An extensive glossary at the back of the book
- Includes 16 custom-drawn maps, revised and improved
- New to this edition: an 8-page insert featuring 16 full color photographs
- New to this edition: key terms are boldfaced at their first appearance in the text and listed at the end of each chapter
The story of the ancient Greeks is one of the most improbable success stories in world history. A small group of people inhabiting a country poor in resources and divided into hundreds of quarreling states created one of the most remarkable civilizations. Comprehensive and balanced, A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society, and Culture, Second Edition is a shorter version of the authors' highly successful Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History, Second Edition (OUP, 2008). Four leading authorities on the classical world offer a lively and up-to-date account of Greek
civilization and history in all its complexity and variety, covering the entire period from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic Era, and integrating the most recent research in archaeology, comparative anthropology, and social history. They show how the early Greeks borrowed from their neighbors but eventually developed a distinctive culture all their own, one that was marked by astonishing creativity, versatility, and resilience. The authors go on to trace the complex and surprising evolution of Greek civilization to its eventual dissolution as it merged with a variety of other cultures. Using physical evidence from archaeology, the written testimony of literary texts and inscriptions, and anthropological models based on comparative studies, this compact volume provides an account of
the Greek world that is thoughtful and sophisticated yet accessible to students and general readers with little or no knowledge of Greece.
Ideal for courses in Greek Civilization and Ancient Greek History, A Brief History of Ancient Greece, Second Edition offers a revised art program featuring more than 125 illustrations and 17 original maps, along with a new 8-page full color photo insert. Numerous "document boxes" provide primary source material and updated suggested readings provide students with additional resources. Also new to this edition, key terms have been boldfaced at their first appearance and listed at the end of the chapter; each one is defined in the expanded glossary. And, for the first time, a Companion Website for students will accompany the
text.Readership: Students and scholars of Greek civilization and ancient Greek history.
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Sarah B Pomeroy, Distinguished Professor of Classics, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, Stanley M Burstein, Professor of History, California State University, Los Angeles, Walter Donlan, Professor of Classics, University of California, Irvine (deceased), and Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, Professor of Classics and History, City College and CUNY Graduate Center
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