Greek people / Robert B. Kebric

By: Kebric, Robert B [author]
Publisher: Boston : [S. l.], c2005Description: xxvi, 271, (38) pages : illustrations, mapsContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0072869038DDC classification: 920.038
Contents:
Preface Illustrations and Maps Chronology 1. After Homer: A New Age Finds Its Voice?Archilochus of Paros, Poet, Soldier, Illegitimate Son 2. A World of Iron and Tyrants: Hesiod the Bard, Polycrates of Samos, and Eupalinus the Engineer 3. The Panhellenic Games: Phayllus of Croton?An Early Sports Hero 4. Eros Unchained: Bisexuality Among the Greeks?Sappho of Lesbos, Harmodius and Aristogiton of Athens, Theodotus and His Lovers 5. The Problem with Persia: East Against West?Polygnotus, Politics, and Paintbrushes 6. A Gilded Edge for a Golden Age: Aspasia the Courtesan in Periclean Athens 7. Rowdies, Rogues, and Robbers: The Other Side of Law in Fifth- and Fourth-Century Athens?Eratosthenes the Adulterer, Conon the Thug, ?Clytemnestra? the Poisoner, Diogeiton the Embezzler, and Phormio the Con-Artist 8. Hellenistic Science, Technology, and Fantasy: Alexander and His Submarine Adventure Epilogue Appendix: People of Atlantis: Plato's Imagination--or Recycled Minoans? Glossary and Pronunciation Guide Acknowledgments Illustration Credits Index
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Includes index.

Preface
Illustrations and Maps
Chronology
1. After Homer: A New Age Finds Its Voice?Archilochus of Paros, Poet, Soldier, Illegitimate Son
2. A World of Iron and Tyrants: Hesiod the Bard, Polycrates of Samos, and Eupalinus the Engineer
3. The Panhellenic Games: Phayllus of Croton?An Early Sports Hero
4. Eros Unchained: Bisexuality Among the Greeks?Sappho of Lesbos, Harmodius and Aristogiton of Athens, Theodotus and His Lovers
5. The Problem with Persia: East Against West?Polygnotus, Politics, and Paintbrushes
6. A Gilded Edge for a Golden Age: Aspasia the Courtesan in Periclean Athens
7. Rowdies, Rogues, and Robbers: The Other Side of Law in Fifth- and Fourth-Century Athens?Eratosthenes the Adulterer, Conon the Thug, ?Clytemnestra? the Poisoner, Diogeiton the Embezzler, and Phormio the Con-Artist
8. Hellenistic Science, Technology, and Fantasy: Alexander and His Submarine Adventure
Epilogue
Appendix: People of Atlantis: Plato's Imagination--or Recycled Minoans?
Glossary and Pronunciation Guide
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
Index

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