Location	Call Number	Status
書庫 1	DF 77 .F697	Available

Table of Contents

• Recreating the world of Ancient Greece
• The formation of the Greek world
• Homer's world: heroes and the coming of the city-state
• An expanding world: 800-500 B.C.
• New identities: the consolidation of the city-state
• Underlying patterns: land and slavery
• Underlying patterns: spiritual life
• Revolution in wisdom: new directions in the archaic age
• Creating the barbarian: the Persian wars
• The fifth century: the politics of power 479-404 B.C.
• The Athenian democracy
• Homage to Dionysus: the drama festivals
• Man is the measure: philosophers and speculators, 450-330 B.C. --Relationships
• Transitions: the Greek world in the fourth century B.C.
• Alexander
• The Hellenistic world
• Mathematics, science, and medicine
• The Greeks and Rome
• The Greeks in the Roman Empire
• Conclusion the Greek achievement

Notes

• ill. (some col.)
• Includes bibliographical references (p. [463]-478) and index
• Originally published: [New York] : Viking, 1999

Subjects

• Civilization, Modern--Greek influences
• Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C.--Influence
• Greece--History--To 146 B.C.--Historiography

Author

• Freeman, Charles, 1947-

Additional Title

• The Greek achievement

Publisher

• Penguin Books

Call Number

• DF 77 .F697

ISBN

• 9780140293234

Content Type

• text

Carrier Type

• volume

Media Type

• unmediated

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