The Greek World 479-323bc

by Simon Hornblower

Book Overview

The main aim of this book is to do justice to all the areas of the Mediterranean world in which Greek culture flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., such as Cyrene, Egypt, Sparta and other... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415065577
• ISBN13: 9780415065573
• Release Date: December 1983
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Fresh as if it happened yesterday

I am not an historian nor student of history, but just an aficionado. As such I got a big fan of the Routledge History of the Ancient World Series. This volume covers the period of classical Greece, more or less from the time when democracy had been already firmly established in Athens up to the life of Alexander the Great. The book has some very strong points, for instance by describing Greece in all its heterogeneity of places and political systems. It gives a very good analysis of the way wars (such as the famous Peloponesian described by Thukydides) came about and what their consequences were. What to my feeling is covered to little is the cultural aspect. In a previous part of the series, on archaic Greece (Greece in the Making) cultural aspects form a more integral part while in the present volume they appear more or less en passant. Yet it is the time of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle that is covered. May be these fellows were politically not very important, but still. However, this critique should not be taken as a suggestion to change the book, bnut rather to add a second volume on the classical Greek world covering Art, Philosophy and Science.