The ancient Greeks : History and culture from Archaic times to the death of Alexander / Matthew Dillon and Lynda Garland
Imprint
London : Routledge, 2013
Descript
xxxiii, 656p. : ill, maps ; 26 cm
CONTENT
The polis: the Greek city-state. -- Colonisation. -- Religion in the Greek world. -- Women, sexuality, and the family. -- Labour: slaves, serfs and citizens. -- Sparta. -- Tyrants and tyranny. -- The law-givers of Athens: Drakon and Solon. -- Peisistrators and his sons. -- Kleisthenes the reformer. -- The Persian Wars. -- The Delian league and the Pentekontaetia. -- The Peloponnesian War and its aftermath. -- The rise of Macedon. -- Alexander 'the Great' of Macedon, 336-323 BC.