Greek History: The Basics is a concise and compelling introduction to the study of Ancient Greece from the end of the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic era. With a chapter on each key period of Greece's ancient history, the book covers the central 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 gleaned from cultural, political, demographic and economic history The possibilities and problems of working with different types of sources. Featuring maps, illustrations, a...

M. I. Finley (1912-86) was the most famous ancient historian of his generation. He was admired by his peers, and was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of the British Academy. His unmistakable voice was familiar to tens of thousands of radio listeners, his polemical reviews and other journalism were found all over the broadsheets and weeklies, and his scholarly as well as his popular works sold in very large numbers as Penguin paperbacks. Yet this was also a man dismissed from his job at Rutgers University when he refused to answer the question of whether...

This book does away once and for all with the assumption that only religions of the book think systematically about god(s).

This volume is both a companion to the editors' Greek Historical Inscriptions, 404-323 BC, and a successor to the later part of the Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century BC, edited by Russell Meiggs and David M. Lewis and published in 1969. As with the editors' earlier collection, it seeks to make a selection of historically significant inscribed texts accessible to scholars and students of fifth-century Greek history.
Since the publication of Meiggs and Lewis' collection, a number of significant new inscriptions and fragments have...