Greeks, The: History, Culture, and Society

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For courses in Greek History or Greek Civilization.

Organized chronologically, this text presents a complete picture of Greek civilization as a history. It features sections on the art, architecture, literature, and thought of each period. This text presents students with the history of Greece from the prehistoric through the Mycenaean Period, the Dark Ages, the Classical Period, the Hellenistic, and the absorption of Greek culture by Rome.

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For courses in Greek History or Greek Civilization.
Organised chronologically, this text presents a complete picture of Greek civilization as a history. It features sections on the art, architecture, literature, and thought of each period. This text presents students with the history of Greece from the prehistoric through the Mycenaean Period, the Dark Ages, the Classical Period, the Hellenistic, and the absorption of Greek culture by Rome.

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Contents

Maps

Preface

About the Authors

Credits

1. A Small, Far-Off Land

Historical Sketch

Why Study the Greeks?

Who Were the Greeks?

The Structure of This Book: History, Culture, and Society

Key Terms

Further Reading

2. Country and People

Greek Geography, Climate, and Agriculture

Demography

Migration

Health and Disease

Nutrition

Economic Growth in Ancient Greece

Key Terms

Further Reading

3. The Greeks at Home

Gender Relationships: Ideals and Realities

Sexuality

Adults and Children

Key Terms

Further Reading

4. The Greeks Before History, 12,000-1200 B.C.

The End of the Last Ice Age, 12,000-11,000 B.C.

The Origins of Agriculture, 11,000-5000 B.C.

Greeks and Indo-Europeans

Neolithic Society and Economy, 5000-3000 B.C.

The Early Bronze Age, 3000-2300 B.C.

The Middle Bronze Age, 2300-800 B.C.

The Age of Minoan Palaces, 2000-600 B.C.

The Rise of Mycenaean Greece, 1750-500 B.C.

The End of Minoan Civilization, 1600-1400 B.C.

Mycenaean Greece: Archaeology, Linear B, and Homer

The End of the Bronze Age, circa 200 B.C.

Key Terms

Further Reading

5. The Dark Age, 1200-800 B.C.

The Collapse of the Old States

Life Among the Ruins

Dark Age Heroes

Art and Trade in the Dark Age

The Eighth-Century Renaissance: Economy

The Eighth-Century Renaissance: Society

The Eighth-Century Renaissance: Culture

Conclusion

Key Terms

Further Reading

6. Homer

The Homeric Question

Milman Parry and Oral Poetry

The Oral Poet in Homer

Heinrich Schliemann and the Trojan War

The Tragic Iliad

Homer and the Invention of Plot

The Comic Odyssey

Odysseus and Homer

Key Terms

Further Reading

7. Religion and Myth

Definitions of Religion and Myth

Hesiod’s Myth of the Origin of the Gods

Greek Religion in History

Forms of Greek Religious Practice

Hesiod’s Myth of Sacrifice

Gods and Other Mysterious Beings

Chthonic Religion

The Ungrateful Dead and the Laying of the Ghost

Ecstatic and Mystical Religion

Conclusion

Key Terms

Further Reading

8. Ancient Greece, 800-480 B.C.: Economy, Society, Politics

Government by Oligarchy

Elite Culture

The Tyrants

The Structure of Archaic States

Conclusion