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Synopsis
In this original new approach to telling the Greek story, David Stuttard weaves together the lives of fifty movers and shakers of the Greek world into a continuous, chronologically organized narrative, from the early tyrant rulers Peisistratus and Polycrates, through the stirrings of democracy under Cleisthenes to the rise of Macedon under Philip II and Alexander the Great and the eventual decline of the Greek world as Rome rose. The political leaders, writers, artists and philosophers of ancient Greece turned a small group of city states into a pan-Mediterranean civilization, whose legacy can be found everywhere today. But who were these people, what do we know of their lives and how did they interact with one another?
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Contents
Introduction
History and Identity in the Ancient Greek World
Chapter 1
Of Gods and Heroes
Hesiod and Homer: The Birth of the Gods and the Ages of Man
Homer and the Beginnings of Biography
The Logographoi and the Stirrings of Historiography
Chapter 2
The Age of Tyrants
PEISISTRATUS / POLYCRATES / SAPPHO / PYTHAGORAS / MILO / HIPPIAS / CLEISTHENES / HISTIAEUS / MILTIADES
Chapter 3
Greece in Peril
CIMON / THEMISTOCLES / LEONIDAS / GELON / HIERON / PINDAR / AESCHYLUS
Chapter 4
The Age of Pericles
PERICLES / HERODOTUS / SOPHOCLES / EMPEDOCLES / PROTAGORAS / PHEIDIAS / ASPASIA
Chapter 5
World War
ALCIBIADES / CLEON / THUCYDIDES / ARISTOPHANES / EURIPIDES / ZEUXIS / GORGIAS / SOCRATES Chapter 6
Fall Out
XENOPHON / LYSANDER / EPAMINONDAS / LYSIAS / DEMOSTHENES / PLATO / ARISTOTLE
Chapter 7
The Age of the Dynasts
ALEXANDER III / PTOLEMY I / DEMETRIUS OF PHALERUM / MENANDER / APELLES / EPICURUS
Chapter 8
In the Shadow of Rome
PYRRHUS OF EPIRUS / APOLLONIUS OF RHODES / ARCHIMEDES / ATTALUS / PHILOPOEMEN / POLYBIUS
Chapter 9
Lives in a Mirror
Maps
Glossary
Timeline
Whos Who
Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Sources of Illustrations
Index
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About the Author
David Stuttard taught Classics for eleven years in Edinburgh, St Andrews and York, and has written numerous books on the Classical world including Greek Mythology: A Traveller's Guide from Mount Olympus to Troy, A History of Ancient Greece in Fifty Lives and The Romans Who Shaped Britain (with Sam Moorhead), all published by Thames & Hudson. He is the founder of the theatre company Actors of Dionysus and a Fellow of Goodenough College, London.
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- PublisherThames and Hudson Ltd
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 050025205X
- ISBN 13 9780500252055
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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