In Search of the Classical World An Introduction to the Ancient Aegean 1st Edition by Dudley Moore ISBN 9781443881456 1443881457

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Author: Dudley Moore

In Search of the Classical World An Introduction to the Ancient Aegean 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part One – Prehistory

Chapter One

• Myth and the Aegean

• King Minos and the Minotaur

• The Curse of the House of Atreus

• Troy and the Trojan War

• Pre-history and Troy

• Archaeology

Chapter Two

• Minoan Terminology and Chronology

Chapter Three

• Pre-palatial Minoans

• Architecture

• The ‘central authority’

Chapter Four

• Emergence of Minoan Palaces

Chapter Five

• Proto-palatial Minoans

• Features

• Role of the ‘Palace’

Chapter Six

• Neo-palatial Minoans

• Religion

• Administration

• Destruction

Chapter Seven

• Mycenae

• Emergence of wealth

• Mycenaean roads

• Power force

• Burial evidence

Chapter Eight

• The Shaft Graves of Mycenae

• Grave Circle A

• Grave Circle B

Chapter Nine

• The Tholos Tombs of Mycenae

• Structures

• The Treasury of Minyas

• Treasury of Atreus

• The Tombs of Clytemnestra, Aegisthus and the Lion

• The ‘Forgotten’ tombs

• Dating of the tombs

• Burial customs

Chapter Ten

• Destruction and Post-palatial Period of Mycenae

• Destruction

• Post-palatial period

Chapter Eleven

• Emergence of Troy

• Chronology

• Topography/Geography

• Development of wealth

• Troy I and II

• Troy III

• Troy IV

• Troy V

• Troy VI and VIIa

• Culture

Chapter Twelve

• The Trojan Treasure

• Discrepancies

• Other ‘inventions’

• Schliemann: Conman?

Part Two – History

Chapter Thirteen

• The Spartans and the Athenians

• The Spartans

• The Athenians

Chapter Fourteen

• Persian Invasions of Greece

• First invasion

• Second invasion

Chapter Fifteen

• 478-436 BC, The Athenian Empire

• Government of Pericles

• Conflict between Athens and Sparta

Chapter Sixteen

• 436-404 BC, Peloponnesian War

• The Archidamian war

• Alcibiades and the second phase of the war

• The invasion of Sicily

• The Ionian war

Chapter Seventeen

• 401-361 BC, The Rise of Thebes

• March of the ten thousand

• War with Sparta and Persia

• The second Athenian league and the supremacy of Thebes

Chapter Eighteen

• 359-323 BC, The Rise of Macedon and Alexander the Great

• Philip II of Macedon

• Alexander the Great

Part Three – Literature and Philosophy

Chapter Nineteen

• Homer’s Iliad 1: Tragedy and Virtue

Chapter Twenty

• Homer’s Iliad 2: Distinction between Gods and God-like

Chapter Twenty-One

• Homer’s Odyssey: A Fairy-tale World

• Fairy-tales of monsters and maidens

Chapter Twenty-Two

• Homer: Literature and Archaeology

• Homeric epic

• Homeric references

• Archaeological references

• Homer: fact or fiction?

Chapter Twenty-Three

• The Philosophers

• Socrates, 469-399 BC

• Plato, 427-347 BC

• Aristotle, 384-322 BC

Chapter Twenty-Four

• Drama 1: Tragedy

• Introduction

• Aeschylus, 525-456 BC

• Sophocles, 496-406 BC

• Euripides, 484-406 BC

Chapter Twenty-Five

• Drama 2: Comedy

• Aristophanes

• Menander

Chapter Twenty-Six

• Thucydides

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