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028			_aInternational Book Distributors _b;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002 _c;112672 _d;04/09/2018
082			_a938 MAR
100			_aThomas R Martin
245			_aAncient Greece _b : from prehistoric to Hellenistic times _c/Thomas R Martin
260			_aNew Haven _b: Yale University Press _c, 1996.
300			_axiii, 252 pages : _b illustrations, maps _c; 24 cm
365			_b1491
505			_a Backgrounds of ancient Greek history -- From Indo-Europeans to Mycenaeans -- The Dark Age -- The Archaic Age -- Oligarchy, tyranny, and democracy -- From Persian Wars to Athenian Empire -- Culture and society in classical Athens -- The Peloponnesian War and its aftermath at Athens -- From the Peloponnesian War to Alexander the Great -- The Hellenistic Age.
520			_a This compact, comprehensive, and generously illustrated history of ancient Greece takes us from the Stone Age roots of Greek civilization to the early Hellenistic period following the death of Alexander the Great. Designed for nonspecialist readers, it will be a welcome and needed resource for all who wish to learn about this important subject. Thomas Martin begins with a prehistory of late Stone Age activity that provides background for the conditions of later Greek life. He then describes the civilizations of the Minoans on the island of Crete and of their successors, the Mycenaeans, on the mainland; the Greek Dark Age and the Archaic Age; the Classical Age of Greece in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.; the transformation of the kingdom of Macedonia into the greatest power in the Greek world; and the period after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C., when monarchies emerging from Alexander's fragmented empire once again came to dominate Greek history. The narrative integrates political, military, social, and cultural history, with a focus on the development of the Greek city-state in the eighth to fourth centuries B.C. and on the society, literature, and architecture of Athens in its Golden Age. The book, which includes useful timelines, maps, plans, and photographs, was adapted from and may be cross-referenced with the historical overview of Greece that is part of the multimedia interactive database Perseus: Interactive Sources and Studies on Ancient Greece, versions 1.0 and 2.0. The book extends the coverage of the Perseus overview, with its new sections on Greek prehistory, the Bronze and Dark Ages, and the Hellenistic period.
650			_aHistory
655			_aGreece -- History -- To 146 B.C. _bCivilization
700			_aThomas R Martin
942			_cBOOK
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