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Other books in this series by the same author The Crusades Ancient Greece MIKE PAINE POCKET ESSENTIALS This edition published in 2007 by Pocket Essentials P.O.Box 394,Harpenden,Herts,AL5 1XJ www.pocketessentials.com Series Editor:Nick Rennison Index & Proofs:Richard Howard © Mike Paine 2002,2007 The right of Mike Paine to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved.No part of this book may be reproduced,stored in or introduced into a retrieval system,or transmitted,in any form or by any means (electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording or otherwise) without the written permission of the publishers. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 10: 1-84243-245-1 ISBN 13:978-1-84243-245-7 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 Typeset by Avocet Typeset,Chilton,Aylesbury,Bucks Printed and bound in Great Britain by J H Haynes & Co Ltd,Sparkford,Somerset Acknowledgements Thanks are due particularly to my editor, Nick Rennison, and my publisher, Ion Mills, for their support, particularly during the latter stages of the writing of this book. Contents Introduction:The Geography of Greece 11 1.Minoan and Mycenaean Greece 15 2.Archaic Greece 33 Religion,Myth and Ceremony;Politics and Identity 3.Classical Greece 53 The Persian Wars; Athens; Art, Literature and Thought in Classical Greece; Sparta; The Peloponnesian War; The Late Classical Age; Alexander the Great • 7 • CONTENTS 4.The Hellenistic Age and Afterwards 121 The Early Hellenistic World;Ptolemaic Egypt;The Library at Alexandria;The Seven Wonders of the World;The Seleucid Kingdom; Macedonia; Rome and Greece Recommended Reading and Further Resources 143 Drama; History; Oratory; Poetry; Philosophy; Miscellaneous; Secondary Texts; Multimedia and Internet Index 155 • 8 • Introduction: The Geography of Greece • 9 •
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