| Reviews |
| - 'this book has no equal and would be difficult to better.' - Books and Bookmen
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| Description | | - Written by 15 distinguished authorities
- Covers art, literature, and philosophy as well as social and political history
- Beautifully illustrated in colour and black & white
| The legacy of the Hellenistic world is vast -- it ranges from architecture to philosophy, literature, and the visual arts to military strategy and science.
This beautifully illustrated study covers the period from the eighth century BC, which witnessed the emergence of the Greek city-states, to the conquests of Alexander the Great and the establishment of the Greek monarchies some five
centuries later.
Chapters dealing with political and social history are interspersed with chapters on philosophy and the arts, including Homer, Greek myth, Aristotle and Plato, Greek dramatists such as Sophocles and Aristophanes, and the flourishing of the visual and plastic arts. |
Readership: Anyone interested in classical history, archaeology, culture, philosophy, or art.
| Contents |
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Introduction
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Jasper Griffin
1.
Greece: The History of the Archaic Period
,
George Forrest
2.
Homer
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Oliver Taplin
3.
Greek Myth and Hesiod
,
Jasper Griffin
4.
Lyric and Elegaic Poetry
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Ewen Bowie
5.
Early Greek Philosophy
,
Martin West
6.
Greece: The History of the Classical Period
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Simon Hornblower
7.
Greek Drama
,
Peter Levi
8.
Greek Historians
,
Oswyn Murray
9.
Life and Society in Classical Greece
,
Oswyn Murray
10.
Classical Greek Philosophy
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Julia Annas
11.
Greek Religion
,
Robert Parker
12.
Greek Art and Architecture
,
John Boardman
13.
The History of the Hellenistic Period
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Simon Price
14.
Hellenistic Culture and Literature
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Robin Lane Fox
15.
Hellenistic Philosophy and Science
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Jonathan Barnes
16.
Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman Art
,
Roger Ling
Table of Events
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by John Boardman, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford,
Jasper Griffin, Professor of Classical Literature, Dyson Fellow in Greek Culture, Jowett Fellow, Jowett Lecturer and Tutor in Classics, Oxford University, and
Oswyn Murray, MacGregor Fellow, Jowett Fellow, Jowett Lecturer, Tutor in Ancient History, Balliol College, Oxford
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