Classical Greece : 500-323 BC / Robin Osborne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Osborne, Robin, 1957- editor.

Series:

Short Oxford history of Europe.

The short Oxford history of Europe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greece--History--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] ; London, [England] : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The complete Short Oxford History of Europe (series editor: Professor T C W Blanning) will cover the history of Europe from Classical Greece to the present in eleven volumes. In each, experts write to their strengths tackling the key issues, including society, economy, religion, politics, and culture, head-on in chapters that will be at once wide-ranging surveys and searching analyses. Each book is specifically designed with the non-specialist reader in mind; but theauthority of the contributors and the vigour of the interpretations will make them necessary and challenging reading for fellow a

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""General Editor�s Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Chapter 1: The creation of classical Greece""; ""The natural world of Greece""; ""The pre-classical past: the literary inheritance""; ""The pre-classical past: oral history""; ""The pre-classical past: the monuments""; ""City and nation""; ""The programme of this book""; ""Chapter 2: The economy""; ""The political economy of Attic Oratory""; ""Back to the land""; ""From the shop floor""; ""The silver lining""

""Toilers of the sea""""Go a-borrowing, go a-sorrowing?""; ""The heart of the matter""; ""Envoi""; ""Chapter 3: The classical city""; ""The civic model""; ""Citizens and citizenship""; ""Athens and Sparta""; ""The polis""; ""Religious activity and the polis""; ""Chapter 4: The city at war""; ""The causes of war""; ""The soldiers: military roles and social status""; ""Citizen infantry: hoplites and light-armed""; ""Cavalry""; ""Mercenaries""; ""Slaves and the army""; ""Warships and their crews""; ""Waging war""; ""Practical limitations""; ""Religious and moral constraints""; ""Devastation""

""Battle""""Sieges""; ""Naval warfare""; ""The economics of warfare""; ""The transformation of classical warfare""; ""Chapter 5: Political conflicts, political debates, and political thought""; ""Introduction: civil war in Corcyra, 427 BC""; ""Political theory: the sources of conflict and its prevention""; ""Democracy at Athens and its critics""; ""Political conflict on stage""; ""Spartan oligarchy: the rise and fall of a political ideal""; ""Monarchy revisited""; ""Conclusions: from destructive political conflict to constructive political debate""; ""Chapter 6: Private life""; ""The body""

""Dress""""Diet and health""; ""Oikos: household and house""; ""Family""; ""Slaves""; ""Friendship""; ""Sexuality""; ""A civic morality""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 7: The fifth century: political and military narrative""; ""The Ionian Revolt and the Persian Wars""; ""Consequences of the Persian Wars""; ""Panhellenism""; ""Herodotus and the writing of history""; ""The Delian League and the creation of empire""; ""The economics of empire""; ""The Delian League and Persia""; ""Empire, democracy and culture""; ""Sparta, Corinth, and Athens, 478�446""; ""Greeks in the West""

""Thucydides and the development of a genre""""The Peloponnesian War""; ""The Archidamian War (431�421)""; ""The Peace of Nicias""; ""The final stage (413�404)""; ""Athenian culture during the Peloponnesian War""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 8: The fourth century: political and military narrative""; ""Discerning a pattern""; ""A pattern repeated""; ""The decades of uncertainty""; ""The rise of Macedon""; ""Greece into Asia""; ""Chapter 9: Epilogue""; ""Further Reading""; ""Chronology""; ""Glossary""; ""List of Ancient Authors""; ""Maps""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-158641-2