List of Figures.List of Maps.List of Timelines.Foreword: Looking Backward.1. Greece in the Bronze Age.2. Iron Age Greece.3. The Poems of Hesiod and Homer.4. Poetry and Sculpture of the Archaic Period.5. Symposia, Seals, and Ceramics in the Archaic Period.6. The Birth of Philosophy and the Persian Wars.7. Setting the Stage for Democracy.8. History and Tragedy in the Fifth Century BC.9. The Peloponnesian War: A Tale of Thucydides.10. Stage and Lawcourt in Late Fifth-Century BC Athens.11. The Transformation of the Greek World in the Fourth Century BC.12. Greek Culture in the Hellenistic Period.Afterword: Looking Forward.Glossary.Index.
David Sansone is Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Aeschylean Metaphors for Intellectual Activity (1975), and Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport (1988), and the editor of Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris (1981) and Plutarch - The Lives of Aristeides and Cato. He is on the Editorial Board of Illinois Classical Studies, of which he was the editor from 1993 to 2000, and on the Editorial Board of the journals Classical Philology and the Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
"Sansone's coverage and approach are fresh and distinctive, and his book richly informative, well-balanced, and engagingly written." Professor Stephen White, University of Texas at Austin "Ancient Greek Civilisation is a deeply thought-out and personal survey of ancient Greek culture." Times Higher Education Supplement "The classicist approach to the topic is evident in his focus on artistic and literary developments and thier relationship to history, politics, and everyday social practices." Art Book News Annual
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