The Cambridge Ancient History, Part 3John Boardman, N. G. L. Hammond The emergence of the Greek world from the Dark Ages to the height of its Geometric civilization was described in The Cambridge Ancient History Volume III Part I. Volume III Part III explores the new prosperity and growth of the young city-states in the eighth to the sixth centuries B.C. This was the great period of expansion and colonization which saw the establishment of Greek city-states from the Western Mediterranean to the Black Sea. This volume describes the East and Egypt, the importance of West Greece and the Aegean islands in trading and exploration, the special characteristics of the societies which were established by colonization. While societies outside the mainstream of expansion and trade retained their old institutions, those at the centre changed rapidly and the period was a time of warfare in mainland Greece. Athens is seen developing into a leading state under the influence of the reforms of Solon and assessment of the social, economic and material history of Greece during these years. |
Contents
36a The Greeks in the Near East I | 1 |
36b The Greeks in Egypt | 32 |
36c Cyprus | 57 |
36d The Cypriot syllabary | 71 |
The colonial expansion of Greece | 83 |
The western Greeks | 163 |
39a The eastern Greeks | 196 |
The material evidence | 202 |
The Peloponnese | 321 |
The growth of the Athenian state | 360 |
The tyranny of Pisistratus | 392 |
45a Economic and social conditions in the Greek world | 417 |
45b The material culture of Archaic Greece | 442 |
Chronological table | 463 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 469 |
| 480 | |
Crete | 222 |
Cretan laws and society | 234 |
39d Euboea and the islands | 249 |
Illyris Epirus and Macedonia | 261 |
Central Greece and Thessaly | 286 |
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F Athens and Attica | 505 |
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