The Greek achievement: the foundation of the Western world/
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[London]:
Allen Lane,
[1999]
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Table of Contents:
- Recreating the world of Ancient Greece
- The formation of the Greek world
- Homer's world: heroes and the coming of the city-state
- An expanding world: 800-500 B. C.
- New identities: the consolidation of the city-state
- Underlying patterns: land and slavery
- Underlying patterns: spiritual life
- Revolution in wisdom: new directions in the archaic age
- Creating the barbarian: the Persian wars
- The fifth century: the politics of power 479-404 B.C.
- The Athenian democracy
- Homage to Dionysus: the drama festivals
- Man is the measure: philosophers and speculators, 450-330 B. C.
- Relationships
- Transitions: the Greek world in the fourth century B. C.
- Alexander
- The Hellenistic world
- Mathematics, science, and medicine
- The Greeks and Rome
- The Greeks in the Roman Empire
- Conclusion: the Greek achievement.