The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 3, Part 3: The Expansion of the Greek World, Eighth to Sixth Centuries B.C.

The emergence of the Greek world from the Dark Ages to the height of its Geometric civilization was described in The Cambridge Ancient History Volume III Part I. Volume III Part III explores the new prosperity and growth of the young city-states in the eighth to the sixth centuries B.C. This was the great period of expansion and colonization which saw the establishment of Greek city-states from the Western Mediterranean to the Black Sea. This volume describes the East and Egypt, the importance of West Greece and the Aegean islands in trading and exploration, the special characteristics of the societies which were established by colonization. While societies outside the mainstream of expansion and trade retained their old institutions, those at the centre changed rapidly and the period was a time of warfare in mainland Greece. Athens is seen developing into a leading state under the influence of the reforms of Solon and assessment of the social, economic and material history of Greece during these years. Cover Title Copyright Contents List of maps List of text-figures Preface NOTE ON FOOTNOTE REFERENCES CHAPTER 36a The Greeks in the Near East I. NAMES AND PLACES II. PHOENICIANS IN GREECE III. GREEK TRADE AND SETTLEMENT IN THE LEVANT IV. ASSYRIAN KINGS AND THE GREEKS V. THE NEO-BABYLONIAN EMPIRE AND THE GREEKS VI. NEAR EASTERN INFLUENCES ON THE GREEKS 1. Loan-words Mycenaean Epic 7th-6th centuries B.C. 5th-4th centuries B.C. 2. Oriental names in Greek genealogies CHAPTER 36b The Greeks in Egypt I. GREEK-EGYPTIAN RELATIONS BEFORE PSAMMETICHUS I II. PSAMMETICHUS I AND THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF GREEKS AND CARIANS III. NAUCRATIS IV. OTHER GREEK AND CARIAN SETTLEMENTS IN EGYPT V. GREEK FORCES IN CAMPAIGNS OF THE SAÏTE DYNASTY VI. THE GREEK DEBT TO EGYPT CHAPTER 36c Cyprus I. ASSYRIAN DOMINATION AND A CENTURY OF INDEPENDENCE II. EGYPTIAN DOMINATION III. THE FIRST YEARS OF PERSIAN DOMINATION CHAPTER 36d The Cypriot syllabary CHAPTER 37 The colonial expansion of Greece I. INTRODUCTION HISTORY OF THE FOUNDATIONS II. THE SOUTH COAST OF ASIA MINOR AND NORTH SYRIA III. SICILY AND SOUTHERN ITALY Pithecusa and Cyme Sicily South Italy IV. THE NORTH COAST OF THE AEGEAN V. HELLESPONT, PROPONTIS, BOSPORUS VI. PONTUS VII. NORTH-WEST GREECE AND THE ADRIATIC VIII. NORTH AFRICA IX. THE FAR WEST TOPICS X. FOUNDATION XI. RELATIONS WITH THE MOTHER CITY XII. RELATIONS WITH THE NATIVE POPULATION XIII. CAUSATION XIV. CONCLUSION List of Greek colonies founded between 800 and 500 CHAPTER 38 The western Greeks I. MAJOR FOUNDATIONS AFTER 700 II. THE EXPANSION OF THE GREEK COLONIES III. GREEKS AND PHOENICIANS IV. THE INTERNAL DEVELOPMENTS OF THE GREEK STATES AND THEIR RELATIONS CHAPTER 39a The eastern Greeks I. THE LITERARY EVIDENCE II. THE MATERIAL EVIDENCE III. THE OVERSEAS EXPANSION OF THE EASTERN GREEKS IV. THE EAST GREEK ACME CHAPTER 39b Crete CHAPTER 39c Cretan laws and society CHAPTER 39d Euboea and the islands I. EUBOEA, 700-500 B.C. II. THE ISLANDS 1. Paros and Archilochus 2. Thera and colonisation 3. Delos and Naxos 4. Conclusion CHAPTER 40 Illyris, Epirus and Macedonia I. ILLYRIAN AND EPIROTIC TRIBES IN ILLYRIS AND WEST MACEDONIA II. SETTLERS ON THE COAST AND THE TRIBES IN EPIRUS III. MACEDONIA CHAPTER 41 Central Greece and Thessaly 1. HESIOD II. BOEOTIA, 700-500 B.C. III. THESSALY, 700-500 B.C. IV. EAST AND WEST LOCRIS, PHOCIS, MALIS, DORIS, 700-500 B.C. V. DELPHI, 750-500 B.C. CHAPTER 42 The Peloponnese I. SOME PROBLEMS OF CHRONOLOGY II. THE PURSUIT OF POWER BY THE DORIAN STATES, C. 750-650 B.C. 1. Constitutional modifications at Sparta 2. The other Peloponnesian states III. THE PURSUIT OF POWER BY INDIVIDUALS , c. 650-550 B.C. IV. STRUGGLES FOR SURVIVAL AND SUPREMACY, C. 650-530 B.C. CHAPTER 43 The growth of the Athenian state I. THE UNIFICATION OF ATTICA II. THE ARISTOCRATIC STATE III. CYLON TO SOLON IV. SOLON 1. Economic measures 2. The constitution and the law 3. Conclusion CHAPTER 44 The tyranny of Pisistratus I. SOLON TO PISISTRATUS II. VICISSITUDES OF PISISTRATUS III. THE TYRANNY ESTABLISHED 1. Foreign relations 2. Internal affairs 3. Cults and buildings 4. Conclusion CHAPTER 45a Economic and social conditions in the Greek world I. INTRODUCTION II. THE FORCES IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT III. THE AGRICULTURAL WORLD IV. THE EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC EXPANSION V. ECONOMIC TENSIONS VI. SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS VII. ARISTOCRATIC LIFE CHAPTER 45b The material culture of Archaic Greece CHRONOLOGICAL CHART BIBLIOGRAPHY Abbreviations A.General B. The east, Egypt and Cyprus I. THE EAST II. EGYPT III. CYPRUS IV. CYPRIOT SCRIPT C. Colonization I. GENERAL II. THE WEST III. NORTH AEGEAN IV. THE BLACK SEA AND APPROACHES V. NORTH AFRICA D. The Greek islands and East Greece I. ISLANDS AND EAST GREECE II. CRETE E. The Greek mainland I. ILLYRIS, EPIRUS AND MACEDONIA II. THESSALY AND CENTRAL GREECE III. LACONIA AND MESSENIA IV. THE ARGOLIC PENINSULA V. CORINTHIA AND MEGARA VI. THE REST OF THE PELOPONNESE F. Athens and Attica I. GENERAL II. THE EARLY PERIOD III. SOLON IV. PISISTRATUS G. Economic and social conditions H. Material culture and art Over the past half century The Cambridge Ancient History has established itself as a definitive work of reference. The original edition was published in twelve text volumes between 1924 and 1939. Publication of the new edition began in 1970. Every volume of the old edition has been totally re-thought and re-written with new text, maps, illustrations and bibliographies. Some volumes have had to be expanded into two or more parts and the series has been extended by two extra volumes (XIII and XIV) to cover events up to AD 600, bringing the total number of volumes in the set to fourteen. 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