The Cambridge Ancient History

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John Boardman, N. G. L. Hammond
Cambridge University Press, 1982 - 530 pages
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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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Table des matières

Euboea and the islands
249
The islands
250
Illyris Epirus and Macedonia
261
Illyris Epirus and Macedonia
262
Central Greece and Thessaly
286
Boeotia
290
Central Greece and Thessaly
296
The Peloponnese
321

The western Mediterranean
84
The central Mediterranean
86
The eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea
88
Sicily and Magna Graecia
96
Sicily 164
103
The western Greeks
163
South Italy
170
The eastern Greeks
196
East Greece
198
n The material evidence
202
39 Crete
222
Crete
224
39 Cretan laws and society
234
The Peloponnese and the Megarid
322
The growth of the Athenian state
360
The tyranny of Pisistratus
392
45Cz Economic and social conditions in the Greek world
417
b The material culture of Archaic Greece
442
Chronological table
463
BIBLIOGRAPHY
469
Colonization
480
E The Greek mainland
496
F Athens and Attica
505
Index
513
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Page 417 - I have never yet been afraid of any men, who have a set place in the middle of their city, where they come together to cheat each other and forswear themselves. If I live, the Spartans shall have troubles enough of their own to talk of, without concerning themselves about the lonians.
Page 53 - For the priests of Egypt recount from the records of their sacred books that they were visited in early times by Orpheus, Musaeus, Melampus, and Daedalus, also by the poet Homer and Lycurgus of Sparta, later by Solon of Athens and the philosopher Plato, and that there also came Pythagoras of Samos and the mathematician Eudoxus,1 as well as Democritus of Abdera and Oenopides 2 of Chios.
Page 235 - In Greece alone of all European races the highest political and literary achievements came at a time when the introduction of writing was so recent that law had not had time completely to supersede primitive custom. Greek cities in their highest prosperity still retained many of the usages peculiar to the tribal communities from which they had grown".
Page 424 - Thus, it is only when a cultivator is integrated into a society with a state — that is, when the cultivator becomes subject to the demands and sanctions of power-holders outside his social stratum — that we can appropriately speak of peasantry
Page 244 - For, while in Sparta each citizen pays a fixed contribution, failing which he is legally deprived of a share in government, in Crete the system is more communal. Since, out of all the crops and the cattle produced from the public lands and the tributes paid by the serfs, one part is devoted to the worship of the gods and the upkeep of public services, and the other part to the syssitia, so that all the citizens are maintained from common funds, men, women and children.
Page 14 - Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants : they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
Page 50 - When King Psammetichus came to Elephantine, those who sailed with Psamatichos son of Theocles wrote this; and they came above Kerkis as far as the river allowed; and Potasimto had command of those of foreign speech and Amasis of the Egyptians; and Archon the son of Amoibichos wrote us and Peleqos son of Eudamos (fig.
Page 157 - This means that by definition there was overpopulation in the colonizing states, since overpopulation is a relative concept and there were certainly large numbers of people for whom conditions at home were so unsatisfactory that they preferred to join colonizing expeditions.
Page 343 - ... will be in keeping with his character; his control of the people will be beyond reproach; his measures against enemies and traitors will be kept secret more easily than under other forms of government. In an oligarchy, the fact that a number of men are competing for distinction in the public service cannot but lead to violent personal feuds; each of them wants to get to the top, and to see his own proposals carried; so they quarrel. Personal quarrels lead to open dissension, and then to bloodshed;...
Page 67 - Chief among the teachers of such doctrines was the man who at the end of the sixth and the beginning of the fifth century BC established a community of yellow-robed followers, and was known by them as the Buddha, the Enlightened or Awakened.

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