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Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander: The Evidence 5 Contents 7 List of Illustrations 31 List of Maps 33 Preface and Acknowledgments 34 How to Use This Book 36 Abbreviations 37 Glossary 39 Greek Weights, Measures, Coins, and the Athenian Calendar 42 Timeline 44 Introduction: The Evidence for Greek History and Culture 49 I The Archaeological Evidence 50 I.1 Pottery 53 II Coins 55 III The Written Evidence 56 III.1 Investigation of Sources and Fragments of Lost Historians 58 III.2 Herodotus 61 III.3 Thucydides 64 III.4 Xenophon 68 III.5 Diodorus of Sicily 69 III.6 Plutarch 70 III.7 The Attic Orators 71 1 The World of Homer 74 1.1 A Funeral Scene on a Dipylon Vase 76 1.2 The Homeric Household (Oikos) 77 1.5 The Measure of Happiness 78 1.6 A Household in Trouble 78 1.7 Households and Community 79 1.8 Homeric Leaders 80 1.9 Kings, Council, and Assembly 81 1.11 Homeric Values: Honor and Excellence 85 1.12 Reciprocity and Guest-Friendship (Xenia) 86 2 The World of Hesiod 89 2.1 Individual, Communal, and Divine Justice 90 2.2 Women and Pandora’s Jar 92 2.4 The Value of Labor 93 2.6 The Orientalizing Period 93 3 The Early Greek Polis (City-State) and the Ethnos 96 3.1 The Homeric Polis 97

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Author

Joseph Roisman

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Published

2011

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction