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A brief history of Ancient Greece, politics, society, and culture, Sarah B. Pomeroy, Hunter College and the City University of New York Graduate Center (emerita); Stanley M. Burstein, California State University, Los Angeles, (emeritus); Walter Donlan, University of California, Irvine, (deceased); Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, City College and the City University of New York Graduate Center; David W. Tandy, University of Leeds; Georgia Tsouvala, Illinois State University

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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A brief history of Ancient Greece

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Sarah B. Pomeroy, Hunter College and the City University of New York Graduate Center (emerita); Stanley M. Burstein, California State University, Los Angeles, (emeritus); Walter Donlan, University of California, Irvine, (deceased); Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, City College and the City University of New York Graduate Center; David W. Tandy, University of Leeds; Georgia Tsouvala, Illinois State University

politics, society, and culture

Offers a capitvating account of Ancient Greek civilization and history

Introduction -- Early Greece and the Bronze Age -- The early Iron Age (c. 11200-750/700 BC) -- Archaic Greece (750/700-480 BC) -- Sparta -- The growth of Athens and the Persian Wars -- The rivalries of the Greek city-states and the growth of Athenian democracy -- Greek life and culture in the fifth century BC -- The Peloponnesian War -- The fourth century BC: changing ideas, continuing warfare -- Philip II and Macedonian supremacy -- Alexander the Great -- The new world of the Hellenistic Period -- A Greco-Roman world