Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens
A History of Ancient Greece
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 July 2020
- ISBN 9780198853121
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages544 pages
- Size 220x140x45 mm
- Weight 528 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Approx. 30 halftones and 10 line drawings 27
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Short description:
A fascinating, accessible, and up-to-date history of the Ancient Greeks. Covering the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods, and centred around the disunity of the Greeks, their underlying cultural unity, and their eventual political unification.
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'WE GREEKS ARE ONE IN BLOOD AND ONE IN LANGUAGE; WE HAVE TEMPLES TO THE GODS AND RELIGIOUS RITES IN COMMON, AND A COMMON WAY OF LIFE.'
So the fifth-century historian Herodotus has the Athenians declare, in explanation of why they would never betray their fellow Greeks to their 'barbarian' Persian enemy. And he could easily have added other common features to this list, such as clothing, culinary traditions, and political institutions.
But if the Greeks understood their kinship to one another, why did so many of them fight for the invading Persians? And why, more generally, is ancient Greek history so often one of internecine wars and other, less violent forms of competition? This extraordinary contradiction is the central theme of Robin Waterfield's magisterial new history of ancient Greece.
From their emergence in the Mediterranean around 750 BCE to the Roman conquest of the last of the Greco-Macedonian kingdoms in 30 BCE, this is the complete story of the ancient Greeks. Equal weight is given to all eras of Greek history-the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods-and to the celebrated figures who shaped it, from Solon and Pericles to Alexander and Cleopatra. In addition, by incorporating the most recent scholarship in classical history and archaeology, the book provides fascinating insights into Greek law, religion, philosophy, drama, and the role of women and slaves in ancient Greek society. A brilliant account of a remarkable civilization, Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens presents a comprehensive and compelling portrait of the perennial paradox of ancient Greece: political disunity combined with underlying cultural solidarity.
Waterfield's book is a pleasure to read: his prose is lively, entertaining, humane, and well researched, and contains a wealth of detail for both student and educator. This work could provide a valuable central text for a college-level Greek history course
Table of Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Chronology and King Lists
Introduction I: Historical Background
Introduction II: Environmental Background
ACT I: The Archaic Period (c. 750-480): The Formation of States
The Emergence of the Greeks in the Mediterranean
Aristocracy and the Archaic State
The Archaic Greek World
Early Athens
The Democratic Revolution
Sparta
Greek Religion
The Persian Wars
The Greeks at War
ACT II: The Classical Period (479-323): A Tale, Mainly, of Two Cities
The Delian League
The Economy of Greece
Athens in the Age of Pericles
Women, Sexuality, and Family Life
The Peloponnesian War
The Insatiability of ASyracuse
Socrates and the Thirty Tyrants
The Futility of War
The Macedonian Conquest
Alexander the Great
ACT III: The Hellenistic Period (323-30): Greeks, Macedonians, and Romans
The Successor Kingdoms
A Time of Adjustment
The Greek Cities in the New World
Social Life and Intellectual Culture
The Roman Conquest
A Feat of Imagination
Glossary
Recommended Reading
Index
