Greek History for Schools
Cambridge University Press, 7/4/2013
EAN 9781107624092, ISBN10: 1107624096
Paperback, 424 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 2.7 cm
Language: English
Originally published in 1914, Edmonds' book is a succinct introduction to the history, art, literature and geography of ancient Greece from the prehistoric Aegean civilizations to the sack of Corinth by the Romans in 146 BC. Edmonds includes questions at the end of each chapter to stimulate discussion, and the text is augmented by fourteen maps, thirty-seven photographs and five illustrations. This book is still useful as a general introduction to ancient Greece, and will be of additional value to those with an interest in the history of Classical education in England.
Preface
1. The geography of Greece
2. Aegean civilisation
3. The heroic and Homeric age
4. The age of colonisation
5. The rise of Sparta
6. Tyranny
7. The early history of Athens
8. The rise of Athens
9. Ionia and Persia
10. Marathon
11. Thermopylae and Salamis
12. Plataea
13. The growth of Athenian power
14. The Athenian empire under Pericles
15. Athenian life
16. The outbreak of the Peloponnesian war
17. The first part of the Peloponnesian war
18. The Athenian expedition to Siciliy
19. The fall of Athens
20. The Spartan supremacy
21. The fall of Spartan supremacy
22. The Theban supremacy
23. Dionysius of Syracuse
24. Philip of Macedon
25. Alexander the Great
26. The successors of Alexander
27. The culture of the Hellenistic age
28. Greece and Rome
Index.