Archaic Greece : The City-States c.700-500 B.C.

by: Jeffery, L.H.

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776 B.C. WAS THE OFFICIAL DATE given to the first Olympic Games by Hippias of Elis, over 350 years later. Modern scholarship uses it as a conventional background date to mark the great cultural developments in several fields which by the end of the eighth century had produced what we call the Archaic Period - for example, the establishment of the alphabet, the start of colonization westwards to Italy and Sicily, the great advances in metalworking, and the growth of the Homeric epics. -- Miss Jeffery reminds us of the sources for the history of this period until 500 B.C., the eve of the Persian Wars. After describing in her opening chapters the typical polis, its home government and colonial expansion, she gives some account of each city-state in mainland Greece, the Aegean, and the coast of Asia Minor. In detailing its history and local culture, as well as events which had great impact on the period - the reforms of Solon, the expulsion of tyrants - she seeks to show how each contributed to the structure of Greek society as a whole. We leave it at the end of the sixth century, a country still criss-crossed with local frontiers, but poised now for the defeat of Persia and the achievements of the fifth century.

Archaic Greece : The City-States c.700-500 B.C.

by: Jeffery, L.H.

• St. Martin's Press, New York, 1976

Price: 39,00 EURO

1 copy in stock