The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece / / Josiah Ober.
Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big houses and wo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Princeton History of the Ancient World ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 1 halftone. 14 line illus. 18 tables. 9 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Images and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1. The Efflorescence of Classical Greece
- 2. Ants around a Pond: An Ecology of City-States
- 3. Political Animals: A Theory of Decentralized Cooperation
- 4. Wealthy Hellas: Measuring Efflorescence
- 5. Explaining Hellas' Wealth: Fair Rules and Competition
- 6. Citizens and Specialization before 550 BCE
- 7. From Tyranny to Democracy, 550-465 BCE
- 8. Golden Age of Empire, 478-404 BCE
- 9. Disorder and Growth, 403-340 BCE
- 10. Political Fall, 359-334 BCE
- 11. Creative Destruction and Immortality
- Appendix I: Regions of the Greek World: Population, Size, Fame
- Appendix II: King, City, and Elite Game
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index