The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 3

John Boardman, N. G. L. Hammond

Cambridge University Press, 1970 - History, Ancient

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The best in the series—Athens—the birthplace of western civilisation. The growth of Athens, its leadership of Greece, and then the treacherous attack by the Spartans, financed by Persia!

Contents

• 36a The Greeks in the Near East: 1
• 6b The Greeks in Egypt: 32
• z Egypt: 34
• The Nile Delta: 43
• 36 Cyprus: 57
• Cyprus: 58
• The Cypriot syllabary: 71
• The colonial expansion of Greece: 83
• The western Mediterranean: 84
• The central Mediterranean: 86
• The eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea: 88
• Sicily and Magna Graecia: 96
• Sicily 164: 103
• The western Greeks: 163
• South Italy: 170
• East Greece: 195
• The eastern Greeks: 196
• n The material evidence: 202
• 39 Crete: 222
• Crete: 224
• 39 Cretan laws and society: 234
• Euboea and the islands: 249
• The islands: 250
• Illyris Epirus and Macedonia: 261
• Illyris Epirus and Macedonia: 262
• Central Greece and Thessaly: 286
• Boeotia: 290
• Central Greece and Thessaly: 296
• The Peloponnese: 321
• The Peloponnese and the Megarid: 322
• The growth of the Athenian state: 360
• The tyranny of Pisistratus: 392
• 45Cz Economic and social conditions in the Greek world: 417
• Chronological table: 463
• BIBLIOGRAPHY: 469
• Colonization: 480
• E The Greek mainland: 496
• F Athens and Attica: 505
• Index: 513

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 3
• Authors: John Boardman, N. G. L. Hammond
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1970
• ISBN: 0521234476, 9780521234474