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A history of Greece to 322 B.C. / by N. G. L. Hammond.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hammond, N. G. L. (Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière), 1907-2001.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greece--History--To 146 B.C.
- Greece.
- History.
- Greece--History.
- Greece--History--146 B.C.-323 A.D.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 691 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, plans. ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : At the Clarendon Press, [1967]
- Contents:
- Introduction: The geography of the Greek peninsula and islands
- Book I. The Early Civilizations of Greece and the Great Migrations (c. 6000-850)
- Book II. The Renaissance of Greece (850-546)
- Book III. The Triumph of Greece (546-466)
- Book IV. The Great Wars between Athens and Sparta (466-404)
- Book V. The Period of Transient Hegemonies (404-354)
- Book VI. The Rise and Expansion of Macedon.
- Notes:
- "Second edition 1967. Reprinted 1971, 1973."
- "The main changes in the second edition are as follows. I have rewritten entirely the opening part of Chapter I and the first two sections of Chapter 2 of Book I in the light of recent excavations and interpretations ... I have included mention of tumulus burials in Albania ... I have made changes in my account of the origins of the Athenian Alliance in sections 1 and 2 of Chapter 5 in Book III ... a new section is added to Appendix 2; this refers to the cylinder seals found at Thebes. Otherwise the changes are small."--P. viii.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1977".
- Potok Collection copy is "1973 reprint" of second edition.
- Potok Collection copy has label of "Ludwig Meyer Ltd. Jerusalem" laid in.
- OCLC:
- 399270
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