Ancient Greek Civilization

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ANCIENT GREEK CIVILIZATION

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FOREWORD LOOKING BACKWARD

Reinventing Ancient Greek Civilization

Ancient Greece in Perspective: Time

Ancient Greece in Perspective: Space

Zetemata: Questions for Discussion

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1 THE GREEKS AND THE BRONZE AGE

Cycladic Civilization

Minoan Civilization

The Greeks Speak Up

The Emergence of Mycenaean Civilization

The End of Mycenaean Civilization

Zetemata: Questions for Discussion

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2 IRON AGEGREECE

Dark Age Ceramic Ware

The Invention of the Alphabet

The Age of Expansion

The Polis

The Olympic Games

Zetemata: Questions for Discussion

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3 THE POEMS OF HESIOD AND HOMER

The Poems of Hesiod

The Development of Hero Cult

The Poems of Homer

Zetemata: Questions for Discussion

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4 POETRY AND SCULPTURE OF THE ARCHAIC PERIOD

The Human Figure in Archaic Art

Lyric Poetry of Archaic Greece

Zetemata: Questions for Discussion

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5 SYMPOSIA, SEALS, AND CERAMICS IN THE ARCHAIC PERIOD

The Symposium

Seals

Tyranny

Ceramics

Zetemata: Questions for Discussion

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6 THE BIRTH OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE PERSIAN WARS

Miletus and the Beginnings of Philosophy

The Agora

The Ionian Revolt (499-494 bc)

The Persian Wars: Marathon

The Persian Wars: Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea

Zetemata: Questions for Discussion

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7 SETTING THE STAGE FOR DEMOCRACY. The Development of Spartan Oligarchy

The Development of Democracy in Athens: Solon

Other Persons: Slavery and Democracy

The Development of Democracy in Athens: Cleisthenes

Ostracism

The Delian League

The Dionysia and the Drama of Aeschylus

Zetemata: Questions for Discussion

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8 HISTORY AND TRAGEDY IN THE FIFTH CENTURY

Herodotus and the Invention of History

Books and Readers

Sophocles

Other Persons: Women and Athenian Democracy

Zetemata: Questions for Discussion

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9 THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR: A TALE OF THUCYDIDES

Thucydides and the Writing of the Peloponnesian War

Diagnosis and Prognosis

The Invention of "the Classical"

Zetemata: Questions for Discussion

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10 STAGE AND LAW COURT IN LATE FIFTH-CENTURY ATHENS

Euripides

Aristophanes

Socrates

Zetemata: Questions for Discussion

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11 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE GREEK WORLD IN THE FOURTH CENTURY

Plato's Bright Ideas

Attic Oratory in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries

Philip II of Macedon and the Subjugation of Greece

Alexander the Great and the Conquest of Asia

Zetemata: Questions for Discussion

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12 GREEK CULTURE IN THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD

Political Life and the Polis

Hellenistic Literature

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

Hellenistic Art

Zetemata: Questions for Discussion

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AFTERWORD LOOKING FORWARD

Later Greek Literature: Poetry

Later Greek Literature: Oratory. A Greek Writing about Romans and a Roman Writing in Greek

East Is East and West Is Not

Zetemata: Questions for Discussion

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GLOSSARY

INDEX

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