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The Greek world, 479-323 BC / / Simon Hornblower
| The Greek world, 479-323 BC / / Simon Hornblower |
| Autore | Hornblower Simon |
| Edizione | [4th ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (432 p.) |
| Disciplina | 938 |
| Collana | Routledge history of the ancient world |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-04065-4
1-136-83126-6 9786613040657 0-203-83171-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; The Greek World 479-323 BC; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; Preface and acknowledgements to the first edition; Preface to the third edition; Preface to the fourth edition; Abbreviations and brief glossary of terms; 1. Introduction; The extent of the Greek world in 4791; The plan of this book; The sources; 2. The beginning of the Delian League; The Athenians take the lead; Terms of enrolment; Mechanisms of control; 3. Empire; Early years; The 'Ephialtic' reforms at Athens; The 'First Peloponnesian War'; The islands; 4. South Italy and Sicily
'Big Greece': south Italy and Sicily as a unitThe problem of the sources: Thucydides not enough; Sicily; South Italy; Conclusion: a distinctive culture?; 5. Kyrene and Egypt; Kyrene; Egypt; 6. The Persian Empire, especially Asia Minor; Introduction; Satraps; Asia Minor under the Persians; Conclusion; 7. Argos; Introduction: the physical setting and the sources; Argos and 'kinship diplomacy'; Argos in the fifth century BC; Argos in the fourth century BC; 8. Macedon, Thessaly and Boiotia; Macedon; Thessaly; Boiotia; 9. The run-up to the war; The problem: can we trust Thucydides? The Great Gap The four stated aitiai10. Corinth; 11. Sparta; 12. Athens; Introduction: Athens' natural advantages; The Athenian myths of identity; Demes and city; Council, Assembly, law courts; Elite values and democratic ideology; Generals and demagogues: fourth-century changes; 13. The Peloponnesian War; Introduction. An important war?; Resources and intended strategy; The Archidamian War; The Peace of Nikias; Mantineia campaign; Melos; Persia and Amorges; Athens and the west, especially 415-413; 413-411; the oligarchic revolution at Athens; 411 to Aigospotamoi and the Athenian surrender 14. The effects of the Peloponnesian WarStasis and other upheavals; system building and treatise writing; professionalism; Military theory and practice; Political developments; Economic changes; Religion: change, and the absence of it; 15. The Corinthian War; Introduction and summary; Athens in defeat: the Thirty Tyrants; The true cause of the Corinthian War: Spartan expansionism to all four points of the compass; The Corinthian War; The King's Peace; 16. The king's peace to Leuktra; the Second Athenian Confederacy; After the King's Peace; The Second Athenian Confederacy 17. Leuktra to Mantineia and the revolt of the satrapsJason of Pherai; The three theatres of Theban foreign policy (1): the Peloponnese; The three theatres of Theban foreign policy (2): the north; The three theatres of Theban foreign policy (3): the Aegean; The run-up to the battle of Mantineia: the revolt of the satraps; 18. Philip; Introduction; Persia and Syracuse in mid-century; Athens and the Social War; Sparta in mid-century; The Third Sacred War; Philip's early years; Up to the Peace of Philokrates; The Peace of Philokrates The breakdown of the peace, the battle of Chaironeia and the settlement of Greece |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459005603321 |
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| London : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Greek world, 479-323 BC / / Simon Hornblower
| The Greek world, 479-323 BC / / Simon Hornblower |
| Autore | Hornblower Simon |
| Edizione | [4th ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (432 p.) |
| Disciplina | 938 |
| Collana | Routledge history of the ancient world |
| ISBN |
1-136-83125-8
1-283-04065-4 1-136-83126-6 9786613040657 0-203-83171-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; The Greek World 479-323 BC; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; Preface and acknowledgements to the first edition; Preface to the third edition; Preface to the fourth edition; Abbreviations and brief glossary of terms; 1. Introduction; The extent of the Greek world in 4791; The plan of this book; The sources; 2. The beginning of the Delian League; The Athenians take the lead; Terms of enrolment; Mechanisms of control; 3. Empire; Early years; The 'Ephialtic' reforms at Athens; The 'First Peloponnesian War'; The islands; 4. South Italy and Sicily
'Big Greece': south Italy and Sicily as a unitThe problem of the sources: Thucydides not enough; Sicily; South Italy; Conclusion: a distinctive culture?; 5. Kyrene and Egypt; Kyrene; Egypt; 6. The Persian Empire, especially Asia Minor; Introduction; Satraps; Asia Minor under the Persians; Conclusion; 7. Argos; Introduction: the physical setting and the sources; Argos and 'kinship diplomacy'; Argos in the fifth century BC; Argos in the fourth century BC; 8. Macedon, Thessaly and Boiotia; Macedon; Thessaly; Boiotia; 9. The run-up to the war; The problem: can we trust Thucydides? The Great Gap The four stated aitiai10. Corinth; 11. Sparta; 12. Athens; Introduction: Athens' natural advantages; The Athenian myths of identity; Demes and city; Council, Assembly, law courts; Elite values and democratic ideology; Generals and demagogues: fourth-century changes; 13. The Peloponnesian War; Introduction. An important war?; Resources and intended strategy; The Archidamian War; The Peace of Nikias; Mantineia campaign; Melos; Persia and Amorges; Athens and the west, especially 415-413; 413-411; the oligarchic revolution at Athens; 411 to Aigospotamoi and the Athenian surrender 14. The effects of the Peloponnesian WarStasis and other upheavals; system building and treatise writing; professionalism; Military theory and practice; Political developments; Economic changes; Religion: change, and the absence of it; 15. The Corinthian War; Introduction and summary; Athens in defeat: the Thirty Tyrants; The true cause of the Corinthian War: Spartan expansionism to all four points of the compass; The Corinthian War; The King's Peace; 16. The king's peace to Leuktra; the Second Athenian Confederacy; After the King's Peace; The Second Athenian Confederacy 17. Leuktra to Mantineia and the revolt of the satrapsJason of Pherai; The three theatres of Theban foreign policy (1): the Peloponnese; The three theatres of Theban foreign policy (2): the north; The three theatres of Theban foreign policy (3): the Aegean; The run-up to the battle of Mantineia: the revolt of the satraps; 18. Philip; Introduction; Persia and Syracuse in mid-century; Athens and the Social War; Sparta in mid-century; The Third Sacred War; Philip's early years; Up to the Peace of Philokrates; The Peace of Philokrates The breakdown of the peace, the battle of Chaironeia and the settlement of Greece |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791857203321 |
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Hornblower Simon
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| London : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Thucydides and Pindar [[electronic resource] ] : historical narrative and the world of Epinikian poetry / / Simon Hornblower
| Thucydides and Pindar [[electronic resource] ] : historical narrative and the world of Epinikian poetry / / Simon Hornblower |
| Autore | Hornblower Simon |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (473 p.) |
| Disciplina | 881/.01 |
| Soggetto topico |
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) - History - To 1500
Laudatory poetry, Greek - History and criticism Olympic games (Ancient) - Historiography Narration (Rhetoric) - History - To 1500 Olympic games (Ancient) in literature Odes, Greek - History and criticism Greek language - Style Athletes in literature Rhetoric, Ancient |
| ISBN |
0-19-171942-0
1-282-19965-X 9786612199653 0-19-153035-2 1-280-90509-3 9786610905096 1-4356-2370-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Table of Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Abbreviations""; ""PART I: SHARED WORLDS""; ""1 Introduction""; ""Plan of this book""; ""Greek athletics: the background""; ""The athletic, equestrian, and musical events at the festivals""; ""Epinikian (victory) odes""; ""The function of the epinikian ode: Pindar and modern anthropology""; ""Performance and audience""; ""Pindar and Thucydides: introductory""; ""Thucydides, Pindar and 'unitarianism'""; ""Dates""; ""The shared athletic milieu""; ""2 Could Thucydides have known Pindar and did he?""
""A personal meeting between Thucydides and Pindar?""""Did Thucydides know Pindar's poetry?""; ""3 Content and Outlook""; ""Introductory remarks""; ""Hesychia""; ""Pindar and kingship theory""; ""Medicine, the politician as doctor""; ""Hope; justice and the stronger man; love of what is distant""; ""Patriotic death; ephemerality of life""; ""Intelligence and inborn excellence""; ""Ambition; stasis""; ""Political outlook""; ""4 Religion, Myths, Women, Colonization""; ""Introduction""; ""The afterlife; immortality""; ""Personified abstractions""; ""Myths: women""; ""Colonial myths"" ""Dorieus of Sparta and the 'lost clod of earth'""""Myths as ways of rejecting or upstaging historical claims""; ""Kinship diplomacy""; ""Mixed colonial realities""; ""Myths of possession""; ""5 People, Places, Prosopography, and Politics""; ""Introduction: prosopography, Pindar, and Bacchylides""; ""Individuals and places (A): the wide sweep (places other than Aigina, Sparta, Kyrene, Athens)""; ""Individuals and places (B): Aigina, Sparta, Kyrene, and Athens""; ""Provisional conclusions""; ""Politics and panhellenic sanctuaries""; ""PART II: THUCYDIDES PINDARICUS"" ""6 Introduction to Part II""""Vocabulary and parallels""; ""Authors: why just Pindar?""; ""The plan of Part II""; ""7 The Clearest Example of Thucydides Pindaricus: 5. 49�50.4, the Olympic Games of 420 BC""; ""Why does Thucydides treat this episode so fully?""; ""Lichas son of Arkesilas""; ""Analysis of Th. 5. 49�50.4""; ""8 Statements of Method; Causation""; ""Introduction""; ""Selectivity""; ""Moralizing""; ""Scruples and self doubt""; ""Causation""; ""Contingency; Dorieus of Sparta; 'derailing individuals'""; ""9 'Antiquarian' Excursuses""; ""10 Speeches""; ""Introduction"" ""Conclusion"" |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996209793303316 |
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Hornblower Simon
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| Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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