Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of text-figures
- Preface
- 36a The Greeks in the Near East
- 36b The Greeks in Egypt
- 36c Cyprus
- 36d The Cypriot syllabary
- 37 The colonial expansion of Greece
- 38 The western Greeks
- 39a The eastern Greeks
- 39b Crete
- 39c Cretan Laws and Society
- 39d Euboea and the Islands
- 40 Illyris, Epirus and Macedonia
- 41 Central Greece and Thessaly
- 42 The Peloponnese
- 43 The growth of the Athenian state
- 44 The Tyranny of Pisistratus
- 45a Economic and social conditions in the Greek world
- 45b The material culture of Archaic Greece
- Chronological Table
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of text-figures
- Preface
- 36a The Greeks in the Near East
- 36b The Greeks in Egypt
- 36c Cyprus
- 36d The Cypriot syllabary
- 37 The colonial expansion of Greece
- 38 The western Greeks
- 39a The eastern Greeks
- 39b Crete
- 39c Cretan Laws and Society
- 39d Euboea and the Islands
- 40 Illyris, Epirus and Macedonia
- 41 Central Greece and Thessaly
- 42 The Peloponnese
- 43 The growth of the Athenian state
- 44 The Tyranny of Pisistratus
- 45a Economic and social conditions in the Greek world
- 45b The material culture of Archaic Greece
- Chronological Table
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Index
Summary
Volume III.I described the emergence of Greece from Dark Ages of depopulation and relative poverty to the acme of its Geometric civilization. The new prosperity and growth of the young city-states led them to look for new frontiers to conquer or settle, to eye each other's prosperity with cupidity, and their rulers and people to give thought to safeguarding their own wealth and status in the new societies of Archaic Greece. Volume in. 3 explores this growth, its causes and course, the dissensions and the faltering steps along the path to political stability.
The first chapter deals with that intercourse with the older civilizations of the east and Egypt which opened Greek eyes to materials, techniques and trading profits denied to them since the collapse of their Bronze Age civilization. This is a story which begins in the ninth and eighth centuries; but in the eighth and seventh the Greeks begin to turn to other Mediterranean areas, and we witness that spread of the Greek city-state to the coasts and islands of the Mediterranean sea, to the sea of Marmara and the Black Sea, which opened a new epoch in the history of western man.
The effects of this expansion, unprecedented in geographical scope, were manifold. The Greeks of the founding states gained greatly in prosperity, because the volume of seaborne trade increased by leaps and bounds and they were still the main exporters of manpower, weapons and finished goods.
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- The Cambridge Ancient History , pp. xiii - xviPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1982