Brief history ancient greece pomeroy 2nd edition

Stanley M. David W. The new edition stretches from the Bronze Age down through Roman Greece, and makes an effort to include many primary source documents and new archaeological finds. This text is an ideal choice for students and enthusiasts of Greek history political, social, military, and cultural and civilization. The writing is clear and accessible. The maps and color illustrations add a lot of verve. Essentially, this is a finely balanced text, avoiding belaboring topics as well as giving coverage to all the major themes.

Its major strengths are its readability, formatting which fits my course's time frame , cost, and currency. Request Examination Copy. Burstein, Walter Donlan Item 1 of 0. Very Good Well Read. Add to cart. Reviews: Trustpilot. Summary This is the second edition of Sarah Pomeroy et al.

Like the larger Pomeroy text, the book covers the Bronze Age c. The story of the ancient Greeks is one of the most improbable success stories in world history. A small group of people inhabiting a country poor in resources and divided into hundreds of quarreling states created one of the most remarkable civilizations. Four leading authorities on the classical world offer a lively and up-to-date account of Greek civilization and history in all its complexity and variety, covering the entire period from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic Era, and integrating the most recent research in archaeology, comparative anthropology, and social history.

They show how the early Greeks borrowed from their neighbors but eventually developed a distinctive culture all their own, one that was marked by astonishing creativity, versatility, and resilience.

The authors go on to trace the complex and surprising evolution of Greek civilization to its eventual dissolution as it merged with a variety of other cultures. Using physical evidence from archaeology, the written testimony of literary texts and inscriptions, and anthropological models based on comparative studies, this compact volume provides an account of the Greek world that is thoughtful and sophisticated yet accessible to students and general readers with little or no knowledge of Greece.

The political leaders, writers, artists and philosophers of ancient Greece turned a few city states into a pan-Mediterranean civilization. But who were these people, what do we know of their lives and how did they interact with one another? This highly readable, original new approach to telling the history of. The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece.

A major new history of classical Greece—how it rose, how it fell, and what we can learn from it 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.