Book Details
Orange Code:95611
Paperback:528 pages
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1. The Greeks in the Near East2. Th e Greeks in E g y p t3. Cyprus4. T h e Cyprio t syllabary5. The western Greeks6. Th e eastern Greeks7. Crete8. Cretan laws and society9. Euboea and the islands10. Illyris, Epirus and Macedonia11. Central Greec e and Thessaly12. T h e Peloponnes e13. T h e g r o w t h of the Athenian state14. T h e tyranny of Pisistratus15. Economi c and social conditions in the Gree k worl d16. The material culture of Archaic Greece
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The emergence of the Greek world from the Dark Ages to the height of its Geometric civilization was described in The Cambridge Ancient History Volume III Part I. Volume III Part III explores the new prosperity and growth of the young city-states in the eighth to the sixth centuries B.C. This was the great period of expansion and colonization which saw the establishment of Greek city-states from the Western Mediterranean to the Black Sea. This volume describes the East and Egypt, the importance of West Greece and the Aegean islands in trading and exploration, the special characteristics of the societies which were established by colonization. While societies outside the mainstream of expansion and trade retained their old institutions, those at the centre changed rapidly and the period was a time of warfare in mainland Greece. Athens is seen developing into a leading state under the influence of the reforms of Solon and assessment of the social, economic and material history of Greece during these years.
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