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The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece

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The cradle of Western civilization, ancient Greece was a land of contradictions and conflict. Intensely quarrelsome and competitive, the Greek city-states consistently proved unwilling and unable to unite. Yet, in spite of or even because of this internal discord, no ancient civilization proved so dynamic or productive. The Greeks not only colonized the Mediterranean and Black Sea areas but set standards of figurative art which endured for nearly 2500 years. Charting topics as diverse as Minoan civilization, the Persian Wars, the Athenian Golden Age and the conquests of Alexander the Great, The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece traces the development of this creative and restless people and assesses their impact not only on the ancient world but also on our own attitudes and environment. - Back cover.

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144

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The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece
January 1, 1997, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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First Sentence

"The history of Greece in the Classical and Hellenistic periods is extremely well documented, through the historical writings of Herodotos, Thucydides, Xenophon and others and in the many surviving fragments of other, now lost, works epitomized by the encyclopaedists of the Hellenistic and Roman periods, such as Diodoros, Strabo and Pliny."

Table of Contents

Timelines
Part one : Crete, Mycenae and the Heroic Age.
Origins
King Minos and Knossos
The Mycenaean world
Bronze Age trade
The sea peoples controversy
The collapse of Mycenae
The Trojan wars
Minoan and Mycenaean art
Part two : Dark Age to Athenian ascendancy.
Dark Age Greece
Rise of the city-states
Migration and colonization
Egypt and Kyrenaica
The Greeks in Italy
Rise of the tyrants
Athens ascendant
The classical myths
Part three : The Persian rival.
Persia and the West
Kingdom of Macedonia
Persian campaigns I
Persian campaigns II
The continuing rivalry
The rise of Sparta
Ancient explorers
Greek literature and thought
Part four : Perikles to Philip.
Perikles and the Athenian Empire
Peloponnesian War : the Aegean
Peloponnesian War : Sicily
Sparta and Thebes
Kingdoms of Northern Greece
Decline of Athens
Philip and Macedonian expansion
Greek warfare
Part five : Alexander and after.
Campaigns of Alexander
Alexander the general
Alexander's spoils
Consolidation of the kingdoms
New kingdoms, new rivalries
Kingdoms in crisis
Roman conquest
Architecture of ancient Greece
Further reading

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London
Copyright Date
1996

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Library of Congress
G2001.S1M6 1996

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
144 p.
Number of pages
144
Dimensions
25 x x centimeters

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Open Library
OL7356097M
Internet Archive
penguinhistorica00mork
ISBN 10
0140513353
ISBN 13
9780140513356
Library Thing
44816
Goodreads
235006

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