With fresh, new translations and extensive introductions and
annotations, this sourcebook provides an inclusive and integrated
view of Greek history, from Homer to Alexander the Great.

New translations of original sources are contextualized by
insightful introductions and annotations
Includes a range of literary, artistic and material evidence
from the Homeric, Archaic and Classical Ages
Focuses on important developments as well as specific themes to
create an integrated perspective on the period
Links the political and social history of the Greeks to their
intellectual accomplishments
Includes an up-to-date bibliography of seminal scholarship
An accompanying website offers additional evidence and
explanations, as well as links to useful online resources

Autorentext
Joseph Roisman is Professor of Classics at Colby College. He has authored and edited several books, among them Brill's Companion to Alexander the Great (2003) and The Rhetoric of Manhood: Masculinity in the Attic Orators (2005).

J.C. Yardley is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Ottawa. He has published extensively on Greek and Roman history and sources. His books include Alexander the Great: Historical Sources in Translation (ed. with Waldemar Heckel, Blackwell, 2004) and many translations of key texts, from Tacitus and Justin to Livy and Quintus Curtius Rufus.

Klappentext
Incorporating fresh, new translations of original Greek and Roman texts and drawing on a range of sources, including artistic evidence, this sourcebook provides an inclusive and integrated view of Greek history, from Homer to Alexander the Great.

Linking the political, military, and social history of the Greeks to their intellectual accomplishments, Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander offers a full and integrated perspective on the period. Rather than compartmentalizing Greek history and civilization into a number of thematic studies, the book focuses on important developments, placing them within their political, economic, cultural, and intellectual contexts, and examining both their influences and their effects.

Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander puts the reader in touch with the raw material of ancient history and analyzes the importance of this evidence through extensive introductions and explanatory notes. An accompanying website offers additional evidence and explanations, as well as links to useful online resources.

Zusammenfassung
With fresh, new translations and extensive introductions and annotations, this sourcebook provides an inclusive and integrated view of Greek history, from Homer to Alexander the Great.

New translations of original sources are contextualized by insightful introductions and annotations
Includes a range of literary, artistic and material evidence from the Homeric, Archaic and Classical Ages
Focuses on important developments as well as specific themes to create an integrated perspective on the period
Links the political and social history of the Greeks to their intellectual accomplishments
Includes an up-to-date bibliography of seminal scholarship
An accompanying website offers additional evidence and explanations, as well as links to useful online resources

Inhalt
List of Illustrations. List of Maps.

Preface.

Abbreviations.

Glossary.

Greek Weights, Measures, Coins and the Athenian Calendar.

Timeline.

Introduction: The Evidence for Greek History and Culture.

The World of Homer.
The World of Hesiod.
The Early Greek Polis (City-State), Ethnos and Federal States.
Settlements Across the Sea: Greek Colonization.
Aristocratic Power and Attitudes.
Archaic Tyranny.
Archaic and Classical Sparta.
Hoplites and Their Values.
Archaic Athens From Draco to Solon.
Tyranny in Athens.
Cleisthenes and Athenian Democracy (508/7).
Archaic Society and Culture: Gender, Sexuality, Banquet and Competition.
Archaic Law.
Archaic Greek Religion.
The Ionian Revolt: Persians and Greeks.
The Battle of Marathon (490).
The Persian War (480-79).
The Athenian Empire.
Empowering Athenian Democracy (462/1-451/0).
War and Peace in Greece (461/0-437/6).
The Administration of the Empire and the Athenian Tribute Quota Lists.
The City of Athens.
The Sophists, Athenian Democracy and Its Critics.
The Causes of the Peloponnesian War and the Athenian and Spartan Strategies.
The Peloponnesian War: The Archidamian War (431-21).
Finances and Allies During the Archidamian War.
The Uneasy Peace and the Sicilian Expedition (421-413).
The Peloponnesian War: the Decelean War (413-404).
The Rule of the Thirty, The Athenian Amnesty and Socrates' Trial.
Sparta After The Peloponnesian War: Politics, Wealth and Demography.
The Spartan Hegemony, the Corinthian War and the Peace of Antalcidas (404/3-388/7).
From the Peace of Antalcidas (387) to the Battle of Leuctra and Its Aftermath (371).
Jason of Pherae (? 370).
Athenian Imperialism and Theban Hegemony.
Running the Athenian Polis: Politics, Finances, Grain and Trade in the Fourth Century.
Metics (Resident Aliens), Slaves and Barbarians.
Masculine and Feminine Gender in Classical Athens.
Philip II of Macedonia (359-336).
Alexander the Great (336-323).