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Key Terms
polis (p. 54) hoplites (p. 54) phalanx (p. 54) tyrants (p. 56) oligarchies (p. 56)
Suggestions for Further Reading
GENERAL WORKS A good general introduction to Greek his- tory is W. Donlan et al., Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History, 2d ed. (New York, 2008). On the Greek way of war, see V. D. Hanson, The Wars of the Ancient Greeks, rev. ed. (London, 2006).
EARLY GREEK HISTORY Early Greek history is examined in O. Murray, Early Greece, 2d ed. (Cambridge, Mass., 1993). On the Trojan War, see B. Strauss, The Trojan War: A New His- tory (New York, 2006).
ARCHAIC GREECE A good general work on archaic Greece is J. Hall, History of the Archaic Greek World, c. 1200–479 B.C.E. (London, 2006). On Sparta, see P. A. Cartledge, The Spartans (New York, 2003). On early Athens, see R. Osborne, Demos (New York, 1985). The Persian wars are examined in P. Green, The Greco-Persian Wars (Berkeley, Calif., 1996).
CLASSICAL GREECE A general history of classical Greece can be found in P. J. Rhodes, A History of the Greek Classical
Notes
1. H. D. F. Kitto, The Greeks (Harmondsworth, England, 1951), p. 64.
2. Homer, Odyssey, trans. E. V. Rieu (Harmondsworth, England, 1946), p. 337.
3. Xenophon, Symposium, trans. O. J. Todd (Cambridge, Mass., 1968), III, 5.
4. Homer, Odyssey, pp. 290–291.
5. Quoted in T. R. Martin, Ancient Greece (New Haven, Conn.,
1996), p. 62.
6. Quoted in V. D. Hanson, The Wars of the Ancient Greeks,
rev. ed. (London, 2006), p. 14.
7. Plutarch, quoted in E. Fantham et al., Women in the
Classical World (New York, 1994), p. 64.
perioikoi (p. 56)
helots (p. 56)
Sophists (p. 65) rhetoric (p. 65) Socratic method (p. 66)
World, 478–323 B.C. (London, 2006). Valuable works on Athens include D. Kagan, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democ- racy (New York, 1991), and K. A. Raaflaub et al., Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (Berkeley, Calif., 2007). For a recent account of the Peloponnesian War, see J. F. F. Lazenby, The Peloponnesian War (New York, 2004).
GREEK CULTURE For a history of Greek art, see M. Fullerton, Greek Art (Cambridge, 2000). On Greek drama, see the general work by J. De Romilly, A Short History of Greek Literature (Chicago, 1985). On Greek history writing, see D. Shanske, Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History (Cambridge, 2006).
FAMILY AND GENDER ISSUES On the family and women, see C. B. Patterson, The Family in Greek History (New York, 1998); E. Fantham et al., Women in the Classical World (New York, 1994); and S. Blundell, Women in Ancient Greece (London, 1995).
8. Herodotus, The Persian Wars, trans. G. Rawlinson (New York, 1942), p. 3.
9. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, trans. R. Warner (Harmondsworth, England, 1954), p. 24.
10. Sophocles, Oedipus the King, trans. D. Grene (Chicago,
1959), pp. 68–69.
11. Sophocles, Antigone, trans. D. Taylor (London, 1986),
p. 146.
12. Plato, The Republic, trans. F. M. Cornford (New York,
1945), pp. 178–179.
13. Aristotle, quoted in S. Blundell, Women in Ancient Greece
(Cambridge, Mass., 1995), p. 106. 14. Ibid., p. 186.
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