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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792461803321

Autore

Buckley Terry <1946-, >

Titolo

Aspects of Greek history 750-323 BC : a source-based approach / / Terry Buckley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-28183-1

1-135-28184-X

1-282-59030-8

9786612590306

0-203-86021-7

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (550 p.)

Collana

Aspects of classical civilisation Aspects of Greek history 750-323 BC

Disciplina

938

Soggetti

Greece History To 146 B.C

Greece History To 146 B.C Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First edition printed by Routledge, 1996.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; MAPS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 THE MAIN LITERARY SOURCES; 2 THE CAUSES OF COLONIZATION IN ARCHAIC GREECE; 3 THE AGE OF GREEK TYRANNY: C.650-510; 4 THE 'LYCURGAN' REFORMS AND THE RISE OF SPARTA IN THE SEVENTH AND SIXTH CENTURIES; 5 THE REFORMS OF SOLON; 6 THE TYRANNY OF THE PEISISTRATIDS AT ATHENS; 7 THE REFORMS OF CLEISTHENES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY; 8 ATHENIAN POLITICS FROM CLEISTHENES TO THE OUTBREAK OF THE PERSIAN WAR

9 THE PERSIAN WAR: GREEK STRATEGY AND THE LEADERSHIP OF SPARTA IN 480-47910 THE DELIAN LEAGUE AND ATHENIAN EMPIRE; 11 ATHENIAN POLITICS, 478-462/1; 12 SPARTAN FOREIGN POLICY AND PROBLEMS IN THE PELOPONNESE, 478-446/5; 13 THE DEMOCRATIC REFORMS OF EPHIALTES AND PERICLES, 462/1-451/0; 14 THE INSTITUTIONS OF ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY; 15 ATHENIAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE FIRST PELOPONNESIAN WAR, 462/1-446/5; 16 THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE: MEANS OF CONTROL, BENEFITS AND POPULARITY;



17 THE CAUSES OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR; 18 PERICLES AND THE NATURE OF ATHENIAN POLITICS

19 ATHENIAN AND SPARTAN STRATEGY IN THE ARCHIDAMIAN WAR, 431-42120 SPARTA, THE PELOPONNESE AND THE OUTBREAK OF THE DECELEAN WAR, 421-413; 21 ATHENS AND THE WEST, 458-413; 22 PERSIAN INTERVENTION IN THE IONIAN WAR, 413-404; 23 THE RISE AND FALL OF THE OLIGARCHIC MOVEMENT IN ATHENS, 411-410; 24 SPARTAN FOREIGN POLICY, 404-387/6; 25 THE 'HEGEMONY' OF THEBES, 371-362; 26 THE RISE OF MACEDON (359-336): DIPLOMACY AND WARFARE UNDER PHILIP II; 27 ALEXANDER'S GENERALSHIP AT THE BATTLES OF THE RIVER GRANICUS (334), ISSUS (333) AND GAUGAMELA (331); GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; WEBSITES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Aspects of Greek History 750- 323 BC: A Source-Based Approach offers an indispensable introduction to the central period of Greek History for all students of classics, from pre-university to undergraduate level. Chapter by chapter, the relevant historical periods from the age of colonization to Alexander the Great are reconstructed. Emphasis is laid on the interpretation of the available sources, and the book sets out to give a clear treatment of all the major problems within a chronological framework.This new edition brings the book up-to-date with the latest scholarship an