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Alexander the Great
ancient democracy origins
Ancient Greece
Ancient History
Archaeology
Archaic Greek
Athenian Parentage
Author_Robin Osborne
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Common Language
Curse Tablets
Demetrios Poliorketes
Early Greek Warfare
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Good Life
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Greek History
Greek legal systems
Halai Araphenides
Hellenistic Kings
Hoplite Shield
introductory student resources
Invention of Politics
Ionian Revolt
Macedonian Royal House
Mediterranean cultural history
Mithradates VI
Model Life Table
Non-venereal Syphilis
polis formation
Porotic Hyperostosis
Prehistoric Greece
Robin Osborne
Social History
Spartan King Pausanias
studying ancient Greek political evolution
Tarquinius Superbus
The Greek City
The Greek World
The Hellenistic Era
Theban Hegemony
Treponemal Infection
Xenophon Hellenica
Young Men
Zeus Olympios
Product details
- ISBN 9780415644648
- Weight: 180g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Greek History: The Basics is a concise and compelling introduction to the study of Ancient Greece from the end of the Bronze Age to rule by Rome.
With a chapter on each crucial period of Greece’s ancient history, the book covers the key topics, approaches and issues at the heart of Greek History, including:
• The invention of politics and the rise of democracy
• The central role played by the Greek city
• The insights from cultural, political, demographic and economic history
• The benefits and pitfalls of working with different types of sources.
Featuring maps, illustrations, a timeline and annotated guides to further reading, this book is an engaging and authoritative introduction for students of Ancient Greek History.
Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge and of the British Academy.
