05397nam 22006133u 450 991046185040332120210114031446.01-283-40605-597866134060571-118-30094-7(CKB)2670000000139884(EBL)832297(OCoLC)769927246(MiAaPQ)EBC832297(EXLCZ)99267000000013988420131223d2011|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander[electronic resource] The EvidenceHoboken Wiley20111 online resource (690 p.)Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient HistoryDescription based upon print version of record.1-118-30090-4 1-4051-2776-7 Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander: The Evidence; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Preface and Acknowledgments; How to Use This Book; Abbreviations; Glossary; Greek Weights, Measures, Coins, and the Athenian Calendar; Timeline; Introduction: The Evidence for Greek History and Culture; I The Archaeological Evidence; I.1 Pottery; II Coins; III The Written Evidence; III.1 Investigation of Sources and Fragments of Lost Historians; III.2 Herodotus; III.3 Thucydides; III.4 Xenophon; III.5 Diodorus of Sicily; III.6 Plutarch; III.7 The Attic Orators; 1 The World of Homer1.1 A Funeral Scene on a Dipylon Vase1.2 The Homeric Household (Oikos); 1.5 The Measure of Happiness; 1.6 A Household in Trouble; 1.7 Households and Community; 1.8 Homeric Leaders; 1.9 Kings, Council, and Assembly; 1.11 Homeric Values: Honor and Excellence; 1.12 Reciprocity and Guest-Friendship (Xenia); 2 The World of Hesiod; 2.1 Individual, Communal, and Divine Justice; 2.2 Women and Pandora's Jar; 2.4 The Value of Labor; 2.6 The Orientalizing Period; 3 The Early Greek Polis (City-State) and the Ethnos; 3.1 The Homeric Polis; 3.3 An Early Settlement on Andros (Zagora; ca. 700)3.5 Ancient Views of the Origins of the Polis3.5.A Theseus' Unification of Attica; 3.5.B Aristotle on the Evolution of the Polis; 3.6 Ethnos: The Ionians; 3.6.A Ion's Ancestors; 3.6.B Ionians in the Peloponnese; 3.6.C The History of the Ionians; 4 Settlements Across the Sea: Greek "Colonization"; 4.1 Greek Settlements in the Western Mediterranean; 4.2 The Settlement at Pithecoussae (ca. 750); 4.2.A The Settling of Pithecoussae; 4.2.B The "Nestor Cup"; 4.4 The Foundation of Cyrene (631); 4.6 Mother-City and Colony: Corinth, Corcyra, and Epidamnus (435); 4.7 Settlers and Locals4.8 Selinus (651/0?)5 Aristocratic Power and Attitudes; 5.1 Aristocratic Power and Offices in Athens; 5.3 Aristocratic Exclusiveness; 5.3.A The Unworthy; 5.3.B Do Not Marry a Commoner; 5.4 Aristocratic Anxiety; 6 Archaic Tyranny; 6.1 How Tyrants Attained Power; 6.3 Cypselus' Tyranny in Corinth (ca. 650-625); 6.3.A Cypselus' Harsh Tyranny; 6.3.B Cypselus' Mild Tyranny; 6.4 Periander's Tyranny in Corinth (625-585); 6.6 A Failed Attempt at Tyranny in Athens: Cylon (632); 7 Archaic and Classical Sparta; 7.2 The Messenian Wars (735-650) and the Conquered Population; 7.3 The Helots7.3.A Tyrtaeus on the Helots7.3.B The Helot System; 7.4 Eliminating Helots; 7.5 The Krypteia; 7.6 Lycurgus' Regulations; 7.8 The Spartan Government and the Great Rhetra; 7.8.A Tyrtaeus on the Spartan Government; 7.8.B Plutarch on Lycurgus' Rhetra; 7.9 Spartan Kingship; 7.11 The Spartan Gerousia (Council); 7.12 The Ephors; 7.14 State and Family: The Scrutiny of Spartan Babies; 7.15 The Schooling of Boys; 7.17 Girls' Education and Rituals; 7.17.A Girls' Education; 7.17.B Spartan Maidens and Rituals; 7.17.C A Female Spartan Runner; 7.19 Spartan Marriage; 7.20 Wife-Sharing7.20.A Xenophon on Wife-SharingWith 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 annotationsIncludes a range of literary, artistic and material evidence from the Homeric, Archaic and Classical AgesFocuses on important developments as well as specific themes to create an integrated perspective on the periodLinks the political and social history of the Greeks to their intellectual accomplBlackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient HistoryGreece - Civilization - To 146 B.CGreece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C. -- SourcesGreece - History - To 146 B.CGreece -- History -- To 146 B.CGreece -- History -- To 146 B.C. -- SourcesElectronic books.Greece - Civilization - To 146 B.C.Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C. -- Sources.Greece - History - To 146 B.C.Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C. -- Sources.938Roisman Joseph182157Yardley J. C698242AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910461850403321Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander2250301UNINA