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Author : Richard Clogg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0521004799
This book provides a concise, illustrated introduction to the history of modern Greece, with a new final chapter about Greek history and politics to the present day. 56 illustrations. 10 maps.
Author : W. A. Heurtley
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : History
ISBN : 0521094542
Author : James Heneage
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781615199495
Discover the cultural and political riches of Greece across 3,000 years, from classical might to modern rebirth. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read. Philosophy, art, democracy, language, even computers—the glories of Greek civilization have shaped our world even more profoundly than we realize. Pericles and the Parthenon may be familiar, but what of Epaminondas, the Theban general who saved the Greek world from Spartan tyranny? Alexander the Great’s fame has rolled down the centuries, but the golden Hellenistic Age that followed is largely forgotten. “Byzantine” conjures decadence and deadly intrigue, yet the thousand-year empire that ruled from Constantinople and saved Europe twice from invasion was, in fact, Greek. Greece’s modern chapter, too, tells of triumph and calamity—from liberation and expansion to schism, homegrown dictatorship, Nazi occupation, and civil war. Today’s nation is battered by austerity, encroaching climate change, and a refugee crisis—yet unwavering in its ancient values. James Heneage captures the full Grecian drama in this riveting, short history, revealing Greece as the wellspring of Western civilization—and a model that may yet save modern democracy.
Author : PJ Rhodes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857735515
Classical Greece and its legacy have long inspired a powerful and passionate fascination. The civilization that bequeathed to later ages drama and democracy, Homer and heroism, myth and Mycenae and the Delphic Oracle and the Olympic Games has, perhaps more than any other, helped shape the intellectual contours of the modern world. P J Rhodes is among the most distinguished historians of antiquity. In this elegant, zesty new survey he explores the archaic (8th–early 5th centuries BCE), classical (5th and 4th centuries BCE) and Hellenistic (late 4th–mid-2nd centuries BCE) periods up to the beginning of Roman hegemony. His scope is that of the peoples who originated on the Greek mainland and Aegean islands who later migrated to the shores of the Mediterranean and Black Seas, and then (following the conquests of Alexander) to the Near East and beyond. Exploring topics such as the epic struggle with Persia; the bitter rivalry of Athens and Sparta; slaves and ethnicity; religion and philosophy; and literature and the visual arts, this authoritative book will attract students and non-specialists in equal measure.
Author : Sarah B. Pomeroy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132216651
The story of the ancient Greeks is one of the most improbable success stories in world history. A small group of people inhabiting a country poor in resources and divided into hundreds of quarreling states created one of the most remarkable civilizations ever. Comprehensive and balanced, A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society, and Culture, Second Edition is a shorter version of the authors' highly successful Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History, Second Edition (OUP, 2008). Four leading authorities on the classical world offer a lively and up-to-date account of Greek civilization and history in all its complexity and variety, covering the entire period from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic Era, and integrating the most recent research in archaeology, comparative anthropology, and social history. They show how the early Greeks borrowed from their neighbors but eventually developed a distinctive culture all their own, one that was marked by astonishing creativity, versatility, and resilience. Using physical evidence from archaeology, the written testimony of literary texts and inscriptions, and anthropological models based on comparative studies, this compact volume provides an account of the Greek world that is thoughtful and sophisticated yet accessible to students and general readers with little or no knowledge of Greece.
Author : Jacqueline de Romilly
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226143125
Offers profiles of ancient Greek writers, including Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, and Plutarch, and traces the development of Greek literature.
Author : Richard Clogg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1986-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521328373
This history surveys the history of the Greek people from the declining years of the Byzantine Empire to the late twentieth-century. The second edition includes a topical chapter to bring the account up to the late 1980s.
Author : James Hawes
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781615198153
How the most powerful country in the UK was forged by invasion and conquest, and is fractured by its north-south divide. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read. England—begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of beloved period dramas, and home of the House of Windsor—is not quite the stalwart island fortress that many of us imagine. Riven by an ancient fault line that predates even the Romans, its fate has ever been bound up with that of its neighbors; and for the past millennia, it has harbored a class system like nowhere else on Earth. This bracing tour of the most powerful country in the United Kingdom reveals an England repeatedly invaded and constantly reinvented—yet always fractured by its very own Mason-Dixon Line. It carries us swiftly through centuries of conflict between Crown and Parliament (starring the Magna Carta), America’s War of Independence, the rise and fall of empire, two World Wars, and England’s break from the EU. We discover: why the American colonists of 1776 believed that they were the true Anglo-Saxons how the British Empire was undermined from within why Winston Churchill said the UK could only be saved by splitting up England itself and how populism spawned Brexit and its “new elite.” The Shortest History of England brings all this and more to prescient life—offering the most direct, compelling route to understanding the country behind today’s headlines.
Author : Carol G. Thomas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118631751
Greece: A Short History of a Long Story presents a comprehensive overview of the history of Greece by exploring the continuity of Greek culture from its Neolithic origins to the modern era. Tells the story of Greece through individual personalities that inhabited various periods in the lengthy sweep of Greek history Uses an approach based on recent research that includes DNA analysis and analyses of archaeological materials Explores ways in which the nature of Greek culture was continually reshaped over time Features illustrations that portray the people of different eras in Greek history along with maps that demonstrate the physical sphere of Greece and major events in each of the periods
Author : Christopher Montague Woodhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0571161227
This new edition covers the history of Greece from Constantine in the 3rd century to April 1990, the subject of the new chapter, when the third election in 10 months brought to power Costa Mitsotakis and the New Democracy party.
Author : W. S. Robinson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1330265386
Excerpt from A Short History of Greece This short History of Greece is intended for younger students before they reach the standard of such books as Smiths or Omans Histories. My aim has been to give a plain straightforward and continuous narrative of the career of the chief States which made up the Greek race; and at the same time to point out the principles underlying their various lines of conduct and the general course of Greek history, especially as regards the eventual loss of national freedom; so that the learner, while having plenty of facts to form a solid foundation for his knowledge, may at the same time be gradually led on to acquire some grasp of the history as a whole, and obtain some insight into the manner in which thevarious events all contributed to the general result. The wars and battles have perhaps been described at rather greater length than is usual in elementary histories; my object has been to increase their interest by making the reasons for the various operations and their results more intelligible. Maps have been added to explain the more important operations, and in a few cases battle plans: for these I do not claim any originality, having simply followed standard histories and atlases. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : W. A. Heurtley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Greece
ISBN : OCLC:6932362
Author : Evelyn S. Shuckburgh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107619357
Originally published in 1901, this book was intended as a history of the Greeks and an outline of the continuing influence of ancient Greek culture.
Author : William Spry Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Greece
ISBN : LCCN:41037785
Author : William Spry Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Greece
ISBN : HARVARD:32044097034607
