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The Greeks An Introduction to Their Culture, 3rd edition

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  • 1 EARLY GREECE: HOMER AND HESIOD Preface xi

    • Bronze Age Greece

    • Minoan civilization

    • Mycenaean civilization

    • The Dark Age

    • The Homeric Poems

    • TheIliad

    • TheOdyssey

    • Homeric ideals: civilized social living

    • Homeric ideals: poetry and art

    • The Greek love of beauty and Homer’s style

    • Hesiod



  • 2 HISTORY

    • The main historical sources

    • The city state before the Persian Wars

    • The Persian Wars

    • Democracy and empire: Periclean Athens

    • The Peloponnesian War

    • Spartan hegemony and the Second Athenian League

    • The rise of Philip of Macedon

    • The opposition of Demosthenes

    • Alexander the Great

    • The Hellenistic Kingdoms



  • 3 RELIGION AND SOCIAL LIFE

    • Religion

    • Pan-Hellenic games

    • The gymnasium

    • The symposium

    • ‘Greek love’

    • Women

    • Slaves



  • 4 LITERATURE

    • Introduction

    • Tragedy: festivals and conventions

    • Aeschylus (525–456)

    • Sophocles (c. 496–406)

    • Euripides (c. 485–406)

    • Old Comedy: Aristophanes (c. 450–c. 385)

    • Oratory and prose

    • Literature of the Hellenistic age



  • 5 PHILOSOPHY

    • The Pre-Socratics

    • Socrates (469–399) and the sophists

    • Plato (c. 427–347)

    • Aristotle (384–322)

    • Hellenistic philosophy: post-Aristotelians

    • Medicine and science



  • 6 ART

    • Geometric beginnings (ninth and eighth centuries)

    • The Archaic period (seventh and sixth centuries)

    • The Classical period (fifth and fourth centuries)

    • The Hellenistic period (from the conquest of Alexander in 323)



  • Appendices

  • 1 Chronological table

  • 2 Translations cited in the text

    • Glossary of terms

    • Index

    • 1 Plan of the palace at Cnossus FIGURES

    • 2 Fresco at Cnossus; bull-jumping

    • 3 Fresco at Cnossus

    • 4 Plan of Mycenae

    • 5 Plan of Nestor’s palace at Pylos

    • 6 Lion Gate, Mycenae

    • 7 Gold face mask of Agamemnon

    • 8 Rhyton in the shape of a bull's head

    • 9 Troy



  • 10 Mycenaean boar’s tusk helmet

  • 11 The world of Odysseus

  • 12 The Chigi vase

  • 13 The reforms of Cleisthenes

  • 14 The Near East and the Persian empire

  • 15 The plain of Marathon

  • 16 Torso of a hoplite found at Sparta

  • 17 Athens in the Classical era

  • 18 Piraeus and the Long Walls after the Persian Wars

    • empire in the second half of the fifth century 19 The Greek world in the Classical era showing the Athenian



  • 20 The conquests of Alexander the Great

  • 21 Map of Hellenistic Kingdoms c. 185 BC

  • 22 Theogony of Olympian deities

  • 23 Plan of Delphi c. 350 BC

  • 24 The ‘Charioteer of Delphi’

  • 25 The reconstructed Treasury of Athens at Delphi

    • at Delphi 26 The reconstructed tholos in the Athena Pronaia sanctuary

      • 27 Herm: detail of Attic red-figure kraterby the Pan-painter

      • 28 A gold stater with the head of Alexander the Great

      • 29 Serapis: a Grecian head with an Egyptian headdress

      • 30 Athletes with javelin and discus in the palaestra

      • 31 Symposium fresco from the tomb of the diver at Paestum

      • 32 Symposium with hetairaifrom Campanian bell-krater

      • 33 Attic red-figure kylixby the Byrgos-painter

        • Harmodius (right) 34 Statue group of the tyrant-slayers, Aristogeiton (left) and



      • 35 Bronze figure of a Spartan woman semi naked in athletic pose

        • Attic red-figure vase by Macron 36 A woman pours an offering from a jug over a flaming altar,



      • 37 Tattooed Thracian slave girl with a jar on her head

      • 38 A Greek papyrus

      • 39 The theatre of Dionysus at Athens

      • 40 The theatre at Epidaurus

        • spiritual centres of the Greek world 41 Delphi: theatre and site of the temple of Apollo, one of the



      • 42 The elements of Plato’s thought in the Republic

      • 43 The Stoa of Attalus (c.155) as reconstructed

      • 44 The Dipylon vase

      • 45 Corinthian jug c. 630 BC

      • 46 Vase of Exekias



    • 47a Archaic kouros

    • 47b Critian boy

      • 48 Olympian Apollo





  • 49 and 50 God of Artemisium

    • 51 Myron: discoboulos

    • 52 Athenian cup: girl going to wash

    • 53 Niobid vase

    • 54 Model restoration of the Athenian Acropolis

    • 55a Drawing of Doric order

    • 55b Drawing of Ionic order

      • 55c Drawing of a Corinthian capital



    • 55d Sectional drawing of the reconstructed Parthenon

    • 56a The Parthenon

    • 56b The temple of Poseidon (now thought to be a temple of Hera)

      • 57 Polyclitus:doryphoros

      • 58 Marble portrait bust of Pericles



    • the Parthenon 59 Marble head of the horse of Selene from the east pediment of



  • 60 Lapith and Centaur, marble metope from the Parthenon

  • 61 Deities from the Parthenon frieze

  • 62 Marble sculpture of Iris from the Parthenon’s west pediment

  • 63 Lekythos by the Achilles-painter

  • 64 Praxiteles: Hermes

  • 65 Praxiteles: Aphrodite

  • 66 Apoxyomenosafter Lysippus (Roman copy)

  • 67 Head of Alexander, school of Lysippus

  • 68 Pergamum altar, Berlin

  • 69 Detail from the Pergamum frieze

  • 70 Detail of head of giant

  • 71 The dying Gaul: Roman copy of bronze original

  • 72 Laocoon

  • 73 Aphrodite from Melos

  • 74 Mosaic of a stag hunt, ‘The Deer Hunt’

  • 75 Drunken old woman

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