Ancient Greece

160 Pages·2008·0.36 MB·English

by  Mike Paine

Other books in this series by the same author
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Ancient Greece
MIKE PAINE
POCKET ESSENTIALS
This edition published in 2007 by Pocket Essentials
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Series Editor:Nick Rennison
Index & Proofs:Richard Howard
© Mike Paine 2002,2007
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ISBN 10: 1-84243-245-1
ISBN 13:978-1-84243-245-7
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Acknowledgements
Thanks are due particularly to my editor, Nick
Rennison, and my publisher, Ion Mills, for their
support, particularly during the latter stages of
the writing of this book.

Contents
Introduction:The Geography of
Greece 11
1.Minoan and Mycenaean Greece 15
2.Archaic Greece 33
Religion,Myth and Ceremony;Politics and Identity
3.Classical Greece 53
The Persian Wars; Athens; Art, Literature and
Thought in Classical Greece; Sparta; The
Peloponnesian War; The Late Classical Age;
Alexander the Great
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4.The Hellenistic Age and
Afterwards 121
The Early Hellenistic World;Ptolemaic Egypt;The
Library at Alexandria;The Seven Wonders of the
World;The Seleucid Kingdom; Macedonia; Rome
and Greece
Recommended Reading and Further
Resources 143
Drama; History; Oratory; Poetry; Philosophy;
Miscellaneous; Secondary Texts; Multimedia and
Internet
Index 155
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Introduction:
The Geography of Greece
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