The Greeks: An Introduction to Their Culture

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1.The Homeric World  Bronza Age Greece  Minoan  Mycenaean Homer and history  The Iliad  The Odyssey  Homeric ideals: civilised social living  Homeric ideals: poetry and art  The Greek love of beauty and Homer's style  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 and the Hellenistic Age  3. Religion and Social Life  Religion  The household  Women  Slaves  The gymnasium  Games  The symposium  Homosexuality  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)  Later comedy  Oratory and prose  Hellenistic literature: Alexandrianism  5. Philosophy  The Presocratics  Socrates (469-399) and the sophists  Plato (c. 427-347)  Aristotle (384-322)  Hellenistic philosophy: post-Aristotelians  6. Art  Geometric Beginnings  The Archaic Period  The Classical Period  The Hellenistic Period  Appendices: 1. Chronological table  2. List of translations cited in the text  3. Glossary. Suggestions for further reading. Index