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GREEK HISTORY

THE BASICS

Greek History: The Basics is a concise and compelling introduction to the study of Ancient Greece from the end of the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic era. With a chapter on each key period of Greeces ancient history, the book covers the central topics, approaches and issues at the heart of Greek History, including:

The invention of politics and the rise of democracy

The central role played by the Greek city

The insights gleaned from cultural, political, demographic and economic history

The possibilities and problems of working with different types of sources.

Featuring maps, illustrations, a timeline and annotated guides to further reading, this book is an engaging and authoritative introduction for students of Ancient Greek History.

Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Kings College, Cambridge. His books include Greece in the Making 1200479BC (1996, 2nd edn 2009), Archaic and Classical Greek Art (1998), Athens and Athenian Democracy (2010) and The History Written on the Classical Greek Body (2011).

The Basics

ACTING
BELLA MERLIN

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY
NANCY STANLICK

ANCIENT NEAR EAST
DANIEL C. SNELL

ANTHROPOLOGY
PETER METCALF

ARCHAEOLOGY (SECOND EDITION)
CLIVE GAMBLE

ART HISTORY
GRANT POOKE AND DIANA NEWALL

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
KEVIN WARWICK

THE BIBLE
JOHN BARTON

BIOETHICS
ALASTAIR V. CAMPBELL

BUDDHISM
CATHY CANTWELL

THE CITY
KEVIN ARCHER

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
SUMAN GUPTA

CRIMINAL LAW
JONATHAN HERRING

CRIMINOLOGY (SECOND EDITION)
SANDRA WALKLATE

DANCE STUDIES
JO BUTTERWORTH

EASTERN PHILOSOPHY
VICTORIA S. HARRISON

ECONOMICS (SECOND EDITION)
TONY CLEAVER

EDUCATION
KAY WOOD

ENERGY
MICHAEL SCHOBERT

EUROPEAN UNION (SECOND EDITION)
ALEX WARLEIGH-LACK

EVOLUTION
SHERRIE LYONS

FILM STUDIES (SECOND EDITION)
AMY VILLAREJO

FINANCE (SECOND EDITION)
ERIK BANKS

FREE WILL
MEGHAN GRIFFITH

GENDER
HILARY LIPS

GLOBAL MIGRATION
BERNADETTE HANLON AND THOMAS VICINIO

HUMAN GENETICS
RICKI LEWIS

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
ANDREW JONES

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
PETER SUTCH AND JUANITA ELIAS

ISLAM (SECOND EDITION)
COLIN TURNER

JOURNALISM STUDIES
MARTIN CONBOY

JUDAISM
JACOB NEUSNER

LANGUAGE (SECOND EDITION)
R.L. TRASK

LAW
GARY SLAPPER AND DAVID KELLY

LITERARY THEORY (THIRD EDITION)
HANS BERTENS

LOGIC
JC BEALL

MANAGEMENT
MORGEN WITZEL

MARKETING (SECOND EDITION)
KARL MOORE AND NIKETH PAREEK

MEDIA STUDIES
JULIAN MCDOUGALL

METAPHYSICS
MICHAEL REA

THE OLYMPICS
ANDY MIAH AND BEATRIZ GARCIA

PHILOSOPHY (FIFTH EDITION)
NIGEL WARBURTON

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
JOSEPH HOLDEN

POETRY (SECOND EDITION)
JEFFREY WAINWRIGHT

POLITICS (FOURTH EDITION)
STEPHEN TANSEY AND NIGEL JACKSON

PUBLIC RELATIONS
RON SMITH

THE QURAN
MASSIMO CAMPANINI

RACE AND ETHNICITY
PETER KIVISTO AND PAUL R. CROLL

RELIGION (SECOND EDITION)
MALORY NYE

RELIGION AND SCIENCE
PHILIP CLAYTON

RESEARCH METHODS
NICHOLAS WALLIMAN

ROMAN CATHOLICISM
MICHAEL WALSH

SEMIOTICS (SECOND EDITION)
DANIEL CHANDLER

SHAKESPEARE (THIRD EDITION)
SEAN MCEVOY

SOCIAL WORK
MARK DOEL

SOCIOLOGY
KEN PLUMMER

SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS
JANICE WEARMOUTH

SUBCULTURES
ROSS HAENFLER

TELEVISION STUDIES
TOBY MILLER

TERRORISM
JAMES LUTZ AND BRENDA LUTZ

THEATRE STUDIES (SECOND EDITION)
ROBERT LEACH

WOMENS STUDIES
BONNIE SMITH

WORLD HISTORY
PETER N. STEARNS

GREEK HISTORY

THE BASICS

Robin Osborne

First published 2014
by Routledge
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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2014 Robin Osborne

The right of Robin Osborne to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Osborne, Robin, 1957
Greek history : the basics / Robin Osborne.
pages cm. -- (The basics)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Greece--History--To 146 B.C. 2. Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C. I. Title.
DF214.O83 2014
938--dc23
2013043973

ISBN: 978-0-415-64465-5 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-415-64464-8 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-77633-0 (ebk)

Typeset in Bembo
by Taylor & Francis Books

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IG	Inscriptiones Graecae (Berlin, Berlin Academy, 1873)
ML	Meiggs, R. and D.M. Lewis (1969, with addendum 1988) A selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the end of the Fifth Century BC, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
RO	Rhodes, P.J. and R. Osborne (2003) Greek Historical Inscriptions 404323 BC. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

That I should write this book in the first place was Richard Stonemans idea. Classics and history undergraduates unwittingly acted as a guinea-pig audience for the main text. Numerous colleagues over several years have equally unwittingly contributed to the view of Greek history that gets exposure here. Alastair Blanshard wittingly and willingly read a first draft and offered helpful suggestions for improvement and Caroline Vout similarly read and improved the new chapter which I have added for this edition. My research assistant, Dr Philip Boyes, has done much tidying and provided the new timeline and maps. I am most grateful to them all.

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