century. In the second century AD, the philhellene emperor Hadrian built a library
and gymnasium. He funded the completion of the magnificent temple of Zeus, left
incomplete on the death of Antiochus III, whose ruins remain one of the most
imposing monuments for visitors to Athens. The famous schools remained open until
closed by the Christian emperor Justinian in 529.
Further reading
Morley, Neville, Writing Ancient History, Duckworth, 1999.
Hedrick, Charles W., Ancient History: Monuments and Documents, Blackwell, 2006.
Shanks, Michael, Classical Archaeology of Greece: Experiences of the Discipline, Routledge, 1996.
Grant, Michael, The Routledge Atlas of the Classical World, Routledge, fifth edition, 1994.
Dillon, Matthew and Garland, Lynda, Ancient Greece: Social and Historical Documents from
Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander the Great, third edition, Routledge, 2010.
Dillon, Matthew and Garland, Lynda, The Ancient Greeks: History and Culture from Archaic Times
to the Death of Alexander the Great, Routledge, 2013.
Morris, Ian and Powell, Barry,The Greeks: History, Culture and Society, second edition, Prentice
Hall, 2009.
Meiggs, Russell and Lewis, David (eds.), A Selection of Greek Inscriptions, revised edition, Oxford
University Press, 1969.
Lewis D. M., Inscriptiones Graeci,fasc I (nos 1–500); and with Jeffrey L., fasc 2 (nos 501–1517),
third edition, Berlin, 1994.
Osborne, Robin, Greece in the Making 1200–479 BC, second edition, Routledge, 2009.
Murray, Oswyn, Early Greece, second edition, Fontana, 1993.
Buckley, Terry, Aspects of Greek History 750–323 BC: ASource-Based Approach,Routledge, 1996.
Burkert, Walter, The Orientalising Revolution: The Near Eastern Influence in the Early Archaic Age,
translated by Margaret E. Pindar and Walter Burkert, Harvard University Press, 1992.
Powell, Anton, Constructing Greek Political and Social History from 478 BC, Routledge, 1988.
Jones, A.H.M., Athenian Democracy, Blackwell, 1957.
Kallet, Lisa, ‘The Athenian Economy’ in The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles, edited
by Loren J. Sammons II, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Austin, Michael, The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the Roman Conquest: A Selection of
Ancient Sources in Translation, second edition, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Bugh, Glenn R., The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World, Cambridge University Press,
2006.
Shipley, Graham, The Greek World after Alexander 323–30 BC, Routledge, 2000.
Wallbank, F. W., The Hellenistic World, HarperCollins, 1979.
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