The Cambridge ancient history. Volume 5, The fifth century BC / edited by David M. Lewis [and four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lewis, David M. (David Malcolm), editor.

Series:

Cambridge ancient history

The Cambridge ancient history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greece--History--Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C.

Greece.

Greece--History--Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C.

Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.

Civilization, Aegean.

Hellenism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 603 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Summary:

The fifth century BC was not only the first Classic age of European civilisation. It was the first and last period before the Romans in which great political and military power was located in the same place as cultural importance. This volume therefore is more narrowly focused geographically than its predecessors and successors, and hardly strays beyond Greece. Athens is at the centre of the picture, both politically and culturally, but events and achievements elsewhere are assessed as carefully as the nature of our sources allows. Two series of narrative chapters, one on the growth of the Athenian empire and the development of Athenian democracy, the other on the Peloponnesian War which brought them down, are divided by a series of studies in which the artistic and literary achievements of the fifth century are described. This new edition has been completely replanned and rewritten in order to reflect the advances in scholarship and changes in perspective which have been taking place in the sixty years since the publication of its predecessor.

Contents:

Sources, chronology, method / D.M. Lewis

Greece after the Persian Wars / J.K. Davies

The Delian League to 449 b. c. / P.J. Rhodes

The Athenian revolution / P.J. Rhodes

Mainland Greece, 479-451 b. c. / D.M. Lewis

The Thirty Years' Peace / D.M. Lewis

Sicily, 478-431 b.c. / D. Asheri

Art: Archaic to Classical / J.J. Pollitt

Classical Cities and Sanctuaries / R.E. Wycherley

Rebuilding in Athens and Attica / R.E. Wycherley

Panhellenic Cults and Panhellenic Poets / N.J. Richardson

Athenian Cults and Festivals / Walter Burkert

Athenian Religion and Literature / B.M.W. Knox

Society and Economy / J.K. Davies

Athens as a Cultural Centre / M. Ostwald

The Archidamian War / D.M. Lewis

The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition / A. Andrewes

The Spartan Resurgence / A. Andrewes

Chronological Notes / D.M. Lewis.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781139054324 (ebook)

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