This book contains a comprehensive selection of historical documents for courses in Greek History and Civilization, and Western Civilization. It includes material dealing with all the major aspects of Greek historical experience: political, social, cultural, intellectual, economic, and technological.

*=NEW TO THIS EDITION; 1. EARLY GREECE: FROM THE BRONZE AGE TO THE ORIGIN AND SPREAD OF THE POLIS SYSTEM; A. GREECE IN THE SECOND MILLENNIUM B.C; B. GREEK DEFINITIONS OF THE POLIS; C. GREEK LIFE IN THE EIGHTH CENTURY B.C; D. COLONIZATION AND THE EXPANSION OF THE POLIS SYSTEM: THE CASE OF CYRENE; E. GREEKS AND NON-GREEKS IN THE GREEK COLONIES: THE FOUNDATION OF LAMPSACUS; F. GREEKS AND SCYTHIANS IN THE BLACK SEA: COEXISTENCE AND INTERACTION; G. THE ARISTOCRATIC WARRIOR; H. THE HOPLITE REVOLUTION AND THE CITIZEN SOLDIER; I. THE HOPLITE POLIS: SPARTA; J. THE ROLE OF ATHLETICS; 2. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE GREEK ARISTOCRACY IN THE ARCHAIC PERIOD; * A. RELIGION IN ARISTOCRATIC GREECE; B. ARISTOCRATIC PRIVILEGE; C. ASPECTS OF ARISTOCRATIC LIFE AT ITS PEAK; D. HEROIC ATHLETICS: THE CHARIOT RACE AT PATROCLUS' FUNERAL GAMES; E. THE ARISTOCRACY AND ITS INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS; F. THE CRISIS OF THE ARISTOCRACY; 3. THE PERSIAN WARS; A. THE PERSIAN EMPIRE; B. THE PERSIAN WARS; C. THE SECOND PERSIAN INVASION OF 480 B.C; 4. LIFE IN THE POLIS; A. THE HOUSEHOLD: FAMILY RELATIONS; B. HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT; C. SLAVES AND SLAVERY; D. THE POLIS AND THE HOUSEHOLD; E. RELIGION IN THE CLASSICAL POLIS; F. WAR AND WARFARE IN THE POLIS; G. THE PLACE OF WARFARE IN THE POLIS: SOME PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS; 5. THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR AND THE MILITARY REVOLUTION; A. THE RISE OF ATHENS; B. THE DELIAN LEAGUE; C. THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE; D. OPPOSITION TO THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR AT ATHENS; E. DEFEAT AND HARD TIMES: ATHENS AFTER THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR; F. THE MILITARY REVOLUTION; 6. INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CLASSICAL AGE: THE PHYSIS/NOMOS DEBATE; A. THE CONVENTIONALIST ARGUMENT; B. THE NATURALIST ARGUMENT; C. THE THREAT OF SOCRATES; D. SOCRATES' DEFENSE: "I SHALL OBEY GOD RATHER THAN YOU"; E. DIOGENES THE CYNIC; 7. THE FOURTH CENTURY; A. THE DECLINE AND FALL OF SPARTA; B. THE CRISIS OF THE POLIS IN FOURTH-CENTURY B.C. GREECE; C. THE PERIPHERY OF THE GREEK WORLD; D. PHILIP II AND THE EMERGENCE OF MACEDON; E. THE REIGN OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT: ALEXANDER AND THE GREEKS; F. ALEXANDER AND EGYPT; G. ALEXANDER AND THE NON-GREEKS; H. THE CHALLENGES OF ALEXANDER; I. WHAT WAS ALEXANDER? SAINT OR DEMON?; 8. THE HELLENISTIC AGE; A. A NEW WORLD; B. ALEXANDRIA AND THE COLONIAL WORLD OF HELLENISTIC EGYPT; C. CULTURAL CONTACT: PTOLEMAIC EGYPT; D. CULTURAL CONTACT: BACTRIA AND INDIA; E. CULTURE CLASH: JEWISH RESISTANCE TO HELLENISM; F. JEWISH LIFE IN THE DIASPORA; G. OPPORTUNITIES AND SOCIAL ROLES IN THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD; H. THE COMING OF ROME

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"Readings in Greek History offers a diverse selection of translated ancient material with clear introductory sections that help students properly contextualize and fully understand the selected ancient texts."--Nikolaos Lazaridis, California State University, Sacramento "This sourcebook has a demonstrated track record of success in providing digestible portions of ancient Greek source material to undergraduates."--Giovanni Ruffini, Fairfield University "Especially in regard to length and price, this reader is without a rival."--Vasiliki Kostopoulou, University of Iowa "A very complete and detailed collection of key primary sources, prefaced in a clear and illuminating manner, drawing attention to the wide variety of ways in which we can know the Ancient Greeks."--Lorraine Attreed, College of the Holy Cross