Ancient Greek Civilization

David Sansone is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a former editor of Illinois Classical Studies, served on the editorial boards of Classical Philology and Bryn Mawr Classical Review, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the American Philological Association. While his research focuses on Greek literature of the Classical Period, his publications include work on such subjects as textual criticism, theories of the origin of sport, Bronze Age iconography, John Milton, and Richard Wagner. He is the author of Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport (1988), Plutarch: Lives of Aristeides and Cato (1989), and Greek Drama and the Invention of Rhetoric (Wiley Blackwell, 2012).

• List of Figures viiList of Maps xiList of Timelines xiiiForeword: Looking Backward xv1 The Greeks and the Bronze Age 12 Iron Age Greece 293 The Poems of Hesiod and Homer 494 Poetry and Sculpture of the Archaic Period 675 Symposia, Seals, and Ceramics in the Archaic Period 876 The Birth of Philosophy and the Persian Wars 1077 Setting the Stage for Democracy 1258 History and Tragedy in the Fifth Century 1479 The Peloponnesian War: A Tale of Thucydides 16710 Stage and Law Court in Late Fifth-century Athens 19111 The Transformation of the Greek World in the Fourth Century 21112 Greek Culture in the Hellenistic Period 233Afterword: Looking Forward 263Glossary 283Index 287