The Greek World 479-323 BC

ISBN-13: 9780415602921 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 432 str.

Simon Hornblower

Opis

The Greek World 479-323 BC has been an indispensable guide to classical Greek history since its first publication nearly thirty years ago. Now Simon Hornblower has comprehensively revised and partly rewritten his original text, bringing it up-to-date for yet another generation of readers. In particular, this fourth edition takes full account of recent and detailed scholarship on Greek poleis across the Hellenic world, allowing for further development of the key theme of regional variety across the Mediterranean and beyond. Other extensive changes include a new sub-chapter on Islands, a completely updated bibliography, and revised citation of epigraphic material relating to the fourth-century BC. With valuable coverage of the broader Mediterranean world in which Greek culture flourished, as well as close examination of Athens, Sparta, and the other great city-states of Greece itself, this fourth edition of a classic work is a more essential read than ever before.

Recenzje

Reviews of the third edition (2002):

'To write a standard history which contains the essential material and yet is interesting and says things which have not been said before is one of the hardest tasks. Hornblower has performed it excellently.' - Times Literary Supplement

'Packed with worthwhile ideas and impressive erudition' - Classical Review

'An undergraduate textbook which neither the professional ancient historian can afford to ignore nor the interested non specialist fail to read with profit and pleasure' - History Today

'This fully revised version is a welcome addition to Routledge's History of the Ancient World.' - Contemporary Review

'The first edition became an essential text for students of the period, and this is a welcome new edition, which is more than simply a revision of the original.' - JACT Review

'Hornblower's excellence as historian, and his wide and responsible use of sources, together with attractive packaging, reestablishes tehe book's position as a benchmark for historians ... It is packed to the brim ... with an abundance of erudite observations.' - Scholia Reviews

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. The beginning of the Delian League  3. Empire  4. South Italy and Sicily  5. Kyrene and Egypt  6. The Persian Empire, especially Asia Minor  7. Argos  8. Macedon, Thessaly and Boiotia  9. The run-up to the war  10. Corinth  11. Sparta  12. Athens  13. The Peloponnesian War  14. The effects of the Peloponnesian War  15. The Corinthian War  16. The King’s Peace to Leuktra; the Second Athenian Confederacy  17. Leuktra to Mantineia and the Revolt of the Satraps  18. Philip  19. Alexander  

O autorze

Simon Hornblower is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He was previously Professor of Classics and Grote Professor of Ancient History at University College London. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. His many publications in Greek history and classical civilization include a Commentary on Thucydides in three volumes (1991-2008). He is now working on commentaries on Herodotus books 5 and 6, and on Lykophron's Alexandra.