The Cambridge Ancient History
Volume 4. Persia, Greece and the Western Mediterranean, c.525 to 479 BC
2nd Edition
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- Date Published: November 1988
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- isbn: 9780521228046
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The first section of this volume examines the Persian empire, the regions it comprised, and its expansion under Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes. In Greece, Sparta attained maturity as the leader of a military coalition and Athens passed through a period of enlightened tyranny to a moderate democracy of dynamic energy and intelligence. Given the contrast between Greek idealism and Persian absolutism a clash between the two empires was inevitable. Important chapters deal with the revolt of Ionian Greeks against the Persians, and the two Persian invasions of Greece including epic battles at Marathon, Tthermopylae, and Salamis. The book's third part turns to the Western Mediterranean: Italy becomes a significant factor in the area's historical development and is explored in terms of its peoples and languages from the Bronze to the Iron Ages.
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: November 1988
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521228046
- length: 946 pages
- dimensions: 300 x 173 x 72 mm
- weight: 1.547kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
List of maps
List of text-figures
List of chronological tables
Preface
Part I. The Persian Empire:
1. The early history of the Medes and the Persians and the Achaemenid empire to the death of Cambyses T. Cuyler Young Jr.
2. The consolidation of the empire and its limits of growth under Darius and Xerxes T. Cuyler Young Jr.
3. The major regions of the empire Amélie Kuhrt, I. Eph'al, Henri-Paul Francfort, A. D. H. Bivar, M. Mellink, A. Fol, N. G. L. Hammond and J. D. Ray
Part II. The Greek States:
4. The tyranny of the Pisistratidae D. M. Lewis
5. The reform of the Athenian state by Cleisthenes Martin Ostwald
6. Greece before the Persian invasion L. H. Jeffery
7. Archaic Greek society J. K. Davies, G. S. Kirk, John Boardman, Colin Kraay, C. Roebuck, Oswyn Murray, N. G. L. Hammond and J. P. Barron
Part III. The West:
12. Italy from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age David Ridgway
13. The Etruscans David Ridgway
14. The Iron Age: the peoples of Italy Edward Togo Salmon
15. The languages of Italy J. H. W. Penney
16. Carthaginians and Greeks David Asheri
Bibliography
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