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Subject(s)

• Civilization, Ancient, in literature [Browse]
• Aegean Sea Region—Antiquities [Browse]
• Greece—Civilization—To 146 B.C. [Browse]
• Greece—In literature [Browse]

Series

Routledge history of the ancient world. [More in this series]

Summary note

Greece in the Making 1200-479 BC is an accessible and comprehensive account of Greek history from the end of the Bronze Age to the Classical Period. The first edition of this book broke new ground by acknowledging that, barring a small number of archaic poems and inscriptions, the majority of our literary evidence for archaic Greece reported only what later writers wanted to tell, and so was subject to systematic selection and distortion. This book offers a narrative which acknowledges the later traditions, as traditions, but insists that we must primarily confront the con

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Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 336-360) and index.

Language note

English

Contents

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FIGURES; TABLES; TEXTS; PREFACE; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 THE TRADITIONS OF HISTORY; 2 SETTING THE STAGE; 3 THE PROBLEM OF BEGINNINGS; 4 FORMING COMMUNITIES: The Eighth Century BC; 5 THE WORLD OF HESIOD AND HOMER; 6 REFORMING COMMUNITIES: The Seventh Century; 7 THE GREEK WORLD IN 600 BC; 8 INTER-RELATING CITIES; 9 THE TRANSFORMATION OF ARCHAIC GREECE 520-479 BC; EPILOGUE; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES; INDEX

ISBN

• 1-134-10490-1
• 1-282-06469-X
• 9786612064692
• 0-203-88017-X

OCLC

• 476267328
• 809073419

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203880173

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