Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece
A fascinating guide to Ancient Greek civilisation from the Minoans to Alexander's empire.
Includes information on the key figures, battles and geography of the Ancient Greek empire, as well gods and goddesses, the Olympic games and the day-to-day life of its citizens.
Features stunning photographs and illustrations, a comprehensive factfinder section with a time chart, who's who and glossary, making it perfect for reference use. Internet links to websites with virtual tours, reconstructions and more information.
Chapters in this book include:
- How we know about the Greeks
- Map of Ancient Greece
Early Greece
- The first Greeks
- The Minoans
- Minoan palaces
- Minoan religion
- Explosions and Invasions
- The Mycenaeans
- Mycenaean royal tombs
- Warriors and traders
- Troy and the Trojan War
- Things fall apart
- The Dark Ages
Archaic Greece
- The Archaic Period
- Greek City-states
- Sparta - a warrior state
- Greek armies
- Hoplites
- Greek warships
- The Persian Wars
- The decline of Persia
- The birth of literacy
Classical Greece
- The gold age of Athens
- The Acropolis
- The first democratic states
- Life in Sparta
- The Peloponnesian Wars
- The end of an era
Everyday Life
- Growing up
- Women and the home
- Greek Houses
- Clothes and fashion
- Farming and food
- The marketplace
- Architecture
- Building
- Sculpture
- Pottery
- Metalwork
- Travel by land and sea
- Feasting and fun
- Plays and players
- The Games
- Religion and mythology
- Temples and worship
- Talking to the gods
- Death and the Underworld
- Funerals and burials
Macedonia and the Hellenistic World
- The rise of Macedonia
- Alexander the Great
- The Hellenistic World
- Alexandria
- Inquiring minds
- The Roman conquest
Factfinder
- Gods and goddesses
- Greek myths
- Greek philosophy
- Greek lays
- Battles and battle formations
- Who's who
- Time chart
As Editorial Director, Jane oversees books about absolutely everything. She grew up in Moscow, Singapore, and in a forest in Sussex, building treehouses and pretending to be one of the Famous Five. Before university she was a social worker in Botswana and camped under the stars in the Kalahari Desert.
Struan Reid (Author)
Struan was born in East Africa and spent many years in Africa and the Middle East. He read Archaeology and Anthropology at UCL, and before joining Usborne worked and lived for a number of years in Petra, Jordan. He now lives in London and Dorset.