A visitor's guide to ancient Greece : based on the travels of Aristoboulos of Athens

Книга Ancient Greece Ancient Greece Книги Исторические Автор: Mike Paine Год издания: 2008 Формат: pdf Издат.:Pocket Essentials Страниц: 160 Размер: 1,7 ISBN: 1842432451 Язык: Английский0 (голосов: 0) Оценка:Western civilization began with the Greeks. From the highpoint of the 5th century BC through the cultural triumphs of the Alexandrian era to their impact on the developing Roman empire, the Greeks shaped the philosophy, art, architecture, and literature of the Mediterranean world. Beginning with the Homeric period, once believed to be a realm of myth, Paine takes the reader on a journey through more than 12 centuries of Greek culture. He shows what archaeologists have revealed of the Trojan Wars and Mycenae, outlines the glories of Athens at its height, and provides a gripping narrative of the struggle between the Greeks and the mighty Persian empire. The guide also highlights the careers of great political and military leaders, such as Pericles and Alexander the Great, and explores the importance of great philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle. Dramatists and demagogues, stoics and epicureans, aristocrats and helots all take their place in the unfolding story of Greek achievement. Acknowledgements......Page 5 Contents......Page 7 Introduction: The Geography of Greece......Page 9 Minoan and Mycenaean Greece......Page 15 Archaic Greece......Page 33 Religion, Myth and Ceremony......Page 35 Politics and Identity......Page 46 Classical Greece......Page 53 The Persian Wars......Page 55 The Classical World: Athens......Page 71 Art, Literature and Thought in Classical Greece......Page 78 The Classical World: Sparta......Page 90 The Peloponnesian War......Page 96 The Late Classical Age......Page 105 Alexander the Great......Page 112 The Hellenistic Age and Afterwards......Page 121 The Early Hellenistic World......Page 123 Ptolemaic Egypt......Page 129 The Library at Alexandria......Page 131 The Seven Wonders of the World......Page 133 The Seleucid Kingdom......Page 135 Macedonia......Page 136 Rome and Greece......Page 139 Recommended Reading and Further Resources......Page 143 Primary Texts......Page 145 Drama......Page 146 History......Page 147 Oratory......Page 148 Poetry......Page 149 Philosophy......Page 150 Miscellaneous......Page 151 Secondary Texts......Page 152 Multimedia and Internet......Page 154 Index......Page 155 Western civilization began with the Greeks. From the highpoint of the 5th century BC through the cultural triumphs of the Alexandrian era to their impact on the developing Roman empire, the Greeks shaped the philosophy, art, architecture and literature of the Mediterranean world. Beginning with the Homeric period, once believed to be a realm of myth, Mike Paine takes the reader on a journey through twelve centuries and more of Greek culture. He shows what archaeologists have revealed of the Trojan Wars and Mycenae, outlines the glories of Athens at its height and provides a gripping narrative of the struggle between the Greeks and the mighty Persian empire. The careers of great political and military leaders like Pericles and Alexander the Great are highlighted and the importance of the great philosophers like Plato and Aristotle is demonstrated. Dramatists and demagogues, stoics and epicureans, aristocrats and helots all take their place in the unfolding story of the Greek achievement.