The Cambridge Ancient History, Part 3

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John Boardman, N. G. L. Hammond
Cambridge University Press, Aug 5, 1982 - History - 530 pages
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
Colonization
480

Crete
222
Cretan laws and society
234
39d Euboea and the islands
249
Illyris Epirus and Macedonia
261
Central Greece and Thessaly
286
E The Greek mainland
496
F Athens and Attica
505
Index
513
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