Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History

Sarah B. Pomeroy, Dintinguished Professor of Classics Sarah B Pomeroy, Stanley Mayer Burstein, Walter Donlan, Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, Professor of Classics Emeritus (Deceased) Walter Donlan, Professor of Classics and History Jennifer Tolbert Roberts

Oxford University Press, 1999 - Greece - 512 pages

Written by four leading authorities on the classical world, here is a new history of ancient Greece that dynamically presents a generation of new scholarship on the birthplace of Western civilization.
Ranging from Greece's first beginnings in the Bronze Age through the tumultuous Hellenistic era dominated by Alexander the Great, this volume offers a truly wide-ranging portrait, blending the traditional political and military approach with a more modern accent on social and cultural history.
Everything is included here--the sweeping philosophical systems of Plato and Aristotle, the daily lives of women in Athens, dramatic sea battles in the Aegean, the epic poetry of Homer, the rise of the city-state. The book offers illuminating descriptions of Sparta and Athens, recounts the Persian
and Peloponnesian wars, evaluates the contributions of notable figures such as Solon, Cleisthenes, Pericles, and Philip II of Macedon, and discusses the remarkable rise of Alexander the Great. Throughout the book, the editors trace the slow evolution of Greek culture, revealing how the early Greeks
borrowed from their neighbors, but eventually developed a distinctive culture of their own, marked by astonishing creativity, versatility, and resilience.
Featuring 17 original maps, over 80 photographs, and numerous "document boxes" which highlight a variety of primary source material, this book provides an account of the Greek world that is thoughtful and sophisticated while remaining accessible to the nonscholar. A dynamic collaboration
between four renowned scholars Sarah Pomeroy, Stanley M. Burstein, Walter Donlan, and Jennifer Tolbert Roberts it is the definitive portrait of the fountainhead of Western philosophy, literature, science, and art.

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User Review  - davidpwithun - LibraryThing

Not a bad overall introduction to ancient Greece. However, the authors seem to spend way too much of their time talking about the exceptions that prove the rule and about what ancient Greece could ...

ANCIENT GREECE: A Political, Social and Cultural History

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From Pomeroy (Classics/Hunter Coll.), Stanley M. Burstein (History/Calif. State U niv., Los Angeles), Walter Donlan (Classics/Univ. of Calif., Irvine), and Jennifer Tolbert Roberts (Classics/City Coll ...

About the author

Sarah Pomeroy is Professor of Classics at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Stanley M. Burstein is Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at California State University, Los Angeles. Walter Donlan is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Irvine.
Jennifer Tolbert Roberts is Professor of Classics and History at the City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History
• Authors: Sarah B. Pomeroy, Dintinguished Professor of Classics Sarah B Pomeroy, Stanley Mayer Burstein, Walter Donlan, Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, Professor of Classics Emeritus (Deceased) Walter Donlan, Professor of Classics and History Jennifer Tolbert Roberts
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1999
• ISBN: 0195097424, 9780195097429
• Length: 512 pages