Eureka! : Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks But Were Afraid to Ask

360 Pages·2014·4.2 MB·English

by  Jones

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First published in hardback in Great Britain in 2014 by Atlantic Books, an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd.
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CONTENTS
Maps
Introduction
I 2000–800 BC
From Bronze Age to Dark Age
II 800–725 BC
Competing for glory
Olympics and the Olympian gods
III 725–700 BC
From Homeric hero to Hesiod’s peasants
IV c. 700–593 BC
Tyranny, poetry and speculation
V 593–493 BC
Athens: from tyranny to democracy
VI 493–450 BC
From Persian empire to Athenian – tyranny?
VII 450–421 BC
Athens v. Sparta: the Peloponnesian War
VIII 421–399 BC
Athens capitulates: the execution of Socrates
IX 399–362 BC
City-states at war in Greece
X 360–336 BC
The rise of Macedon: Philip II takes over Greece
XI 336–322 BC
Alexander the Great and the end of democracy
XII 322–229 BC
After Alexander: the empire divided
XIII 229–146 BC
Macedon falls to Rome
XIV 146–27 BC
The end of Alexander’s empire
Epilogue: the survival of Greek literature
Reading list
Index
A note on the author
MAPS