Ancient Greek Civilization

ANCIENT GREEK CIVILIZATION......Page 2
EULA......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 5
FIGURES......Page 7
MAPS......Page 11
TIMELINES......Page 13
Reinventing Ancient Greek Civilization......Page 15
Ancient Greece in Perspective: Time......Page 20
Ancient Greece in Perspective: Space......Page 24
Zetemata: Questions for Discussion......Page 27
Suggested Internet Resources......Page 28
1 THE GREEKS AND THE BRONZE AGE......Page 31
Cycladic Civilization......Page 35
Minoan Civilization......Page 38
The Greeks Speak Up......Page 41
The Emergence of Mycenaean Civilization......Page 44
The End of Mycenaean Civilization......Page 54
Recommended for Further Reading......Page 57
Suggested Internet Resources......Page 58
2 IRON AGEGREECE......Page 59
Dark Age Ceramic Ware......Page 61
The Invention of the Alphabet......Page 67
The Age of Expansion......Page 69
The Polis......Page 71
The Olympic Games......Page 74
Recommended for Further Reading......Page 77
Suggested Internet Resources......Page 78
3 THE POEMS OF HESIOD AND HOMER......Page 79
The Poems of Hesiod......Page 80
The Development of Hero Cult......Page 85
The Poems of Homer......Page 89
Recommended for Further Reading......Page 95
Suggested Internet Resources......Page 96
4 POETRY AND SCULPTURE OF THE ARCHAIC PERIOD......Page 97
The Human Figure in Archaic Art......Page 98
Lyric Poetry of Archaic Greece......Page 106
Zetemata: Questions for Discussion......Page 114
Recommended for Further Reading......Page 115
Suggested Internet Resources......Page 116
5 SYMPOSIA, SEALS, AND CERAMICS IN THE ARCHAIC PERIOD......Page 117
The Symposium......Page 118
Seals......Page 121
Tyranny......Page 125
Ceramics......Page 130
Zetemata: Questions for Discussion......Page 133
Recommended for Further Reading......Page 134
Suggested Internet Resources......Page 135
6 THE BIRTH OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE PERSIAN WARS......Page 137
Miletus and the Beginnings of Philosophy......Page 138
The Agora......Page 141
The Ionian Revolt (499–494 bc)......Page 142
The Persian Wars: Marathon......Page 145
The Persian Wars: Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea......Page 148
Recommended for Further Reading......Page 153
Suggested Internet Resources......Page 154
7 SETTING THE STAGE FOR DEMOCRACY......Page 155
The Development of Spartan Oligarchy......Page 159
The Development of Democracy in Athens: Solon......Page 161
Other Persons: Slavery and Democracy......Page 163
The Development of Democracy in Athens: Cleisthenes......Page 165
Ostracism......Page 167
The Delian League......Page 169
The Dionysia and the Drama of Aeschylus......Page 171
Recommended for Further Reading......Page 175
Suggested Internet Resources......Page 176
8 HISTORY AND TRAGEDY IN THE FIFTH CENTURY......Page 177
Herodotus and the Invention of History......Page 178
Books and Readers......Page 184
Sophocles......Page 186
Other Persons: Women and Athenian Democracy......Page 192
Recommended for Further Reading......Page 195
Suggested Internet Resources......Page 196
9 THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR: A TALE OF THUCYDIDES......Page 197
Thucydides and the Writing of the Peloponnesian War......Page 199
Diagnosis and Prognosis......Page 205
The Invention of “the Classical”......Page 208
Zetemata: Questions for Discussion......Page 218
Recommended for Further Reading......Page 219
Suggested Internet Resources......Page 220
10 STAGE AND LAW COURT IN LATE FIFTH-CENTURY ATHENS......Page 221
Euripides......Page 222
Aristophanes......Page 226
Socrates......Page 232
Recommended for Further Reading......Page 239
Suggested Internet Resources......Page 240
11 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE GREEK WORLD IN THE FOURTH CENTURY......Page 241
Plato’s Bright Ideas......Page 243
Attic Oratory in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries......Page 248
Philip II of Macedon and the Subjugation of Greece......Page 252
Alexander the Great and the Conquest of Asia......Page 255
Recommended for Further Reading......Page 259
Suggested Internet Resources......Page 260
12 GREEK CULTURE IN THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD......Page 263
Political Life and the Polis......Page 264
Hellenistic Literature......Page 271
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics......Page 279
Hellenistic Art......Page 283
Recommended for Further Reading......Page 290
Suggested Internet Resources......Page 291
AFTERWORD LOOKING FORWARD......Page 293
Later Greek Literature: Poetry......Page 296
Later Greek Literature: Oratory......Page 298
A Greek Writing about Romans and a Roman Writing in Greek......Page 301
East Is East and West Is Not......Page 304
Zetemata: Questions for Discussion......Page 310
Recommended for Further Reading......Page 311
Suggested Internet Resources......Page 312
GLOSSARY......Page 313
INDEX......Page 317