John Boardman

Jasper Griffin

Oswyn Murray

"First published 1986 ... in The Oxford history of the classical world"--T.p. verso.

The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World

Jowett Lecturer and Tutor in Classics Jasper Griffin

Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art and Fellow John Boardman

Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History Oswyn Murray

Provides an overview of classical Greek and Roman history, literature, art, philosophy, architecture, religion, government, and daily life

The Oxford History of the Classical World

Murray traces the emergence of urbanisation and social and political structures from the Mycenean and legendary origins of Greece through to the Persian Wars.

Early Greece

"Within the space of three centuries leading up to the great Persian invasion of 480 B.C., Greece was transformed from a simple peasant society into a sophisticated civilization which dominated the shores of the Mediterranean from Spain to Syria and from the Crimea to Egypt -- a culture whose achievements in the fields of art, science, philosophy and politics were to establish the canons of the Western world. The author places this remarkable development in the context of Mediterranean civilization. He shows how contact with the East acted as a catalyst to transform art and religion, analyzes the invention of the alphabet and the conceptual changes it brought, describes the expansion of Greece in trade and colonization and investigates the relationship between military technology and political progress in the overthrow of aristocratic governments." [Back cover].

The period from the emergence of the Greek city-state in the eighth century BC to the reign of Alexander the Great and the establishment of Greek monarchies was one unparalleled in history for its brilliance in literature, philosophy, and the visual arts. This book reproduces the text of the hugely successful Oxford History of the Classical World: Greece and the Hellenistic World in a standard paperback form. Written by a team of leading classical scholars, it includes chapters on political and social history, Homer, Greek myth, drama, science, and the great philosophers. All the original line drawings and maps have been retained, and an eight-page plate section has been specially selected for this edition by Sir John Boardman. - ;The period from the emergence of the Greek city-state in the eighth century BC to the reign of Alexander the Great and the establishment of Greek monarchies was one unparalleled in history for its brilliance in literature, philosophy, and the visual arts. This book reproduces the text of the hugely successful Oxford History of the Classical World: Greece and the Hellenistic World in a standard paperback form. Written by a team of leading classical scholars, it includes chapters on political and social history, Homer, Greek myth, drama, science, and the great philosophers. All the original line drawings and maps have been retained, and an eight-page plate section has been specially selected for this edition by Sir John Boardman. -

Manuela Tecușan

Manuela Tecusan

This volume is a record of an international conference on the place of wine in ritual, culture and society in the ancient world (including Near Eastern culture, Greek culture, Etruria and Italy, and Republican and Imperial Rome).

In Vino Veritas

David Sacks

Lisa R. Brody

Discusses the people, places and events found in over 2,000 years of Greek civilization.

Oswyn Murray

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