The Greek World

1. Linear B as a source for social history
2. The economics and politics of slavery at Athens
3. Hybris, status and slavery
4. Non-aristocratic elements in archaic poetry
5. The place of the poet in archaic society
6. The Greek novel: towards a sociology of production and reception
7. Politics and the battlefield: ideology in Greek warfare
8. Greek piracy
9. Medical texts as a source for women's history
10. Women and bastardy in ancient Greece and the Hellenistic world
11. Athens' pretty face: anti-feminine rhetoric and fifth-century controversy over the Parthenon
12. Herodotus on Egyptian buildings: a test case
13. Beyond the polis: women and economic opportunity in early Ptolemaic Egypt
14. Why Philip won
15. The Greeks in the West and the Hellenization of Italy
16. Rome in the Greek world: the significance of a name
17. Diet, diaita and dietetics
18. Greek engineering: the case of Eupalinos' tunnel
19. Barbers' shops and perfume shops: 'symposia without wine'
20. Bionic statues
21. Greek sacrifice: forms and functions
22. Early Orphism
23. Order, interaction, authority: ways of looking at Greek religion
24. Ionian inquiries: on understanding the Presocratic beginnings of science
25. Law and society in Thucydides
26. Plato's objections to the sophists
27. Plato on women in the Laws

Studying from the Mycenean to the late Hellenistic period, this work includes new articles by twenty-seven specialists of ancient Greece, and presents an examination of the Greek cultures of mainland Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt and Italy.With the chapters sharing the theme of social history, this fascinating book focuses on women, the poor, and the slaves – all traditionally seen as beyond the margins of powerand includes the study of figures who were on the literal margins of the Greek world.Bringing to the forefront the research into areas previously thought of as marginal, Anton Powell sheds new light on vital topics and authors who are central to the study of Greek culture.Plato’s reforms are illuminated through a consideration of his impatient and revolutionary attitude to women, and Powell also examines how the most potent symbol of central Greek history – the Parthenon – can be understood as a political symbol when viewed with the knowledge of the cosmetic techniques used by classical Athenian women.The Greek World is a stimulating and enlightening interaction of social and political history, comprehensive, and unique to boot, students will undoubtedly benefit from the insight and knowledge it imparts.