Stuttard, David, author.
London New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, 2014.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• History and identity in the ancient Greek world — 1. Of gods and heroes : Hesiod and Homer: the birth of the gods and the ages of man Homer and the beginnings of biography The Logographoi and the stirrings of historiography — 2. The age of tyrants : Peisistratus (?c. 605-528) tyrannos of Athens Polycrates (?-522) tyrannos of Samos Sappho (post 630-c. 570) lyric poet Pythagoras (c. 570-c. 485) philosopher, mystic and mathematician Milo (c. 555-?) wrestler and general Hippias (?-490) tyrannos of Athens Cleisthenes (570-?507) democratic reformer Histiaeus (?-?494) tyranos of Miletus Miliades (c. 554-489) tyrannnos and general — 3. Greece in peril : Cimon (c. 510-450) politician and general Themistocles (524-459) politician and general Leonidas (c. 540-480) Spartan king Gelon (?-478) tyrannos of Syracuse Hieron (?-467) tyrannos of Syracuse Pindar (c. 522-c. 442) lyric poet Aeschylus (525/4-456/5) tragic playwright — 4. The age of Pericles : Pericles (495-429) statesman and general Herodotus (c. 484-?420s) historian Sophocles (497/6-405) tragic playwright and politician Empedocles (c. 495-?) philosopher and mystic Protagoras (490-420) philosopher Pheidias (c. 480-c. 430) sculptor Aspasia (c. 470-c. 400) intellectual –
• 5. World war : Alcibiades (450-404) politician and general Cleon (?-422) politician and general Thucydides (c. 455-c. 395) general and historian Aristophanes (c. 446-c. 386) comic playwright Euripides (c. 485-406) tragic playwright Zeuxis (?460-?) artist Gorgias (485-380) philosopher and rhetorician Socrates (?469-399) philosopher — 6. Fallout : Xenophon (c. 430-c. 354) general, historian, lierary innovator Lysander (?-395) Spartan general Epaminondas (c. 418-362) Theban general Lysias (445-380) orator and speech-writer Demosthenes (384-322) orator and politician Plato (c. 427-348/7) philosopher Aristotle (385/4-322) philosopher — 7. The age of the dynasts : Alexander III (356-323) king and conqueror Ptolemy I (367-283) general and dynast Demetrius of Phalerum (c. 347-c. 283) governor of Athens and scholar Menander (342-291) comic playwright Apelles (pre 360-?c. 295) artist Epicurus (341-270) philosopher — 8. In the shadow of Rome : Pyrrhus of Epirus (319-272) king and general Apollonius of Rhodes (pre 270-?232) poet and scholar Archimedes (c. 287-212) mathematician and inventor Attalus I (269-197) king and general Philopoemen (253-183) statesman and general Polybius (200-118) politician and historian — 9. Lives in a mirror — Maps — Glossary — Timeline — Who’s who — Further reading.

Subjects:

• Greece — History — To 146 B.C.
• Greece. fast (OCoLC)fst01208380
• To 146 B.C. fast
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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