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Jennifer Tolbert Roberts is Professor of Classics and History at City College and City University of New York Graduate Center. The late Walter Donlan was Professor of Classics at the University of California, Irvine. Stanley M. Burstein is Professor of History at California State University, Los Angeles. Sarah B. Pomeroy is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Classics at Hunter College and City University of New York Graduate Center.

The story of the ancient Greeks is one of the most improbable success stories in wo... MORErld history. A small group of people inhabiting a country poor in resources and divided into hundreds of quarreling states created one of the most remarkable civilizations. Comprehensive and balanced, A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society, and Culture, Second Edition is a shorter version of the authors' highly successful Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and CulturalHistory, Second Edition (OUP, 2008). Four leading authorities on the classical world offer a lively and up-to-date account of Greek civilization and history in all its complexity and variety, covering the entire period from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic Era, and integrating the most recent research inarchaeology, comparative anthropology, and social history. They show how the early Greeks borrowed from their neighbors but eventually developed a distinctive culture all their own, one that was marked by astonishing creativity, versatility, and resilience. The authors go on to trace the complex and surprising evolution of Greek civilization to its eventual dissolution as it merged with a variety of other cultures. Using physical evidence from archaeology, the written testimony of literarytexts and inscriptions, and anthropological models based on comparative studies, this compact volume provides an account of the Greek world that is thoughtful and sophisticated yet accessible to students and general readers with little or no knowledge of Greece. Ideal for courses in Greek Civilization and Ancient Greek History, A Brief History of Ancient Greece, Second Edition offers a revised art program featuring more than 125 illustrations and 17 original maps, along with a new 8-page full color photo insert. Numerous "document boxes" provide primary source material and updated suggested readings provide students with additional resources. Also new to this edition, key terms have been boldfaced at their first appearance and listed at theend of the chapter; each one is defined in the expanded glossary. And, for the first time, and Companion Website for students will accompany the text.

This is the second edition of Sarah Pomeroy et al.'s shorter ancient Greek history course, ideal for Greek civilization or ancient history courses, but also sometimes used in Greek history classes. Like the larger Pomeroy text, the book covers the Bronze Age (c. 3000 BC) down to the Hellenistic Period (3rd century BC), but it does so in broader strokes.

List of Maps
Acknowledgments
Preface
Time Line
Introduction
Sources: How We Know About the Ancient Greeks
Retrieving the Past: The Material Record
Retrieving the Past: The Written Record
A Synoposis of Written Sources by Periods
The Physical Context: The Land of Greece
Early... MORE Greece and the Bronze Age
Greece in the Stone Ages
Greece in the Early and Middle Bronze Ages (c. 3000-1600 bc)
Greece and the Aegean in the Late Bronze Age (c. 1600-1150 bc)
The "Dark Age" of Greece and the Eighth-Century "Renaissance" (c. 1200-700 bc)
Decline and Recovery (c. 1200-900 bc)
Revival (c. 900-750 bc)
Homeric Society
The End of the Dark Age
Archaic Greece (c. 700-480 bc)
The Formation of the City-State (Polis)
Government in the Early City-States
The Colonizing Movement
Economic and Social Divisions in the Archaic Poleis
Hesiod: A View from Below
The Hoplite Army
The Archaic Age Tyrants
The Arts and Sciences
Panhellenic Institutions
Relations Among States
Sparta
The Dark Age and the Archaic Period
The Spartan System
Demography and the Spartan Economy
Spartan Government
The Peloponnesian League
Historical Change in Sparta
The Spartan Mirage
The Growth of Athens and the Persian Wars
Athens from the Bronze Age to the Early Archaic Age
The Reforms of Solon
Peisistratus and His Sons
The Reforms of Cleisthenes
The Rise of Persia
The Wars Between Greece and Persia
The Rivalries of the Greek City-States and the Growth of Athenian Democracy
The Aftermath of the Persian Wars and the Foundation of a New League
New Developments in Athens and Sparta
The "First" (Undeclared) Peloponnesian War (460-445 bc)
Pericles and the Growth of Athenian Democracy
Literature and Art
Oikos and Polis
The Greek Economy
Greek Life and Culture in the Fifth Century
Greece After the Thirty Years' Peace
The Physical Space of the Polis: Athens in the Fifth Century
Intellectual Life in Fifth-Century Greece
Historical and Dramatic Literature of the Fifth Century
Currents in Greek Thought and Education
The Breakdown of the Peace
Resources for War
The Peloponnesian War
The Archidamian War (431-421 bc)
The Rise of Comedy
Between Peace and War
The Invasion of Sicily (415-413 bc)
The War in the Aegean and the Oligarchic Coup at Athens (413-411 bc)
The Last Years of War (407-404 bc)
The Fourth Century: Changing Ideas, Continuing Warfare
Oligarchy at Athens: The Thirty Tyrants
The Trial of Socrates (399 bc)
The Fourth Century: Changing Ideas, Continuing Warfare
Law and Democracy in Athens
The Fourth-Century Polis
Philosophy and the Polis
Phillip II and the Rise of Macedon
Early Macedon
Macedonian Society and Kingship
The Reign of Philip II
Philip's Plans for Greece
Alexander the Great
Consolidating Power
From Issus to Egypt: Conquest of the Eastern Mediterranean (332-331 bc)
From Alexandria to Persepolis: The King of Asia (331-330 bc)
The High Road to India: Alexander in Central AsiaIndia and the End of the Dream
Return to the West
The Achievements of Alexander
The New World of the Hellenistic Period
The Struggle for the Succession
The Regency of Perdiccas
The Primacy of Antigonus the One-Eyed
Birth Pangs of the New Order (301-276 bc)
The Polis in the Hellenistic World
The Macedonian Kingdoms
Hellenistic Society
Alexandria and Hellenistic Culture
Social Relations in the Hellenistic World
Epilogue
Glossary
Art and Illustration Credits
Index
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Jennifer Tolbert Roberts is Professor of Classics and History at City College and City University of New York Graduate Center.

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