EARLY GREECE

Oswyn Murray

Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1993, 353 pgs., index, further reading, maps

Reviewer Comments:
The book is valuable reading for information on Greek society, culture, religion, warfare, laws, economics, what we do and can know about ancient Greece from available sources, and more .

Preface

I Myth, History and Archeology

II Sources

III The End of the Dark Age: the Aristocracy

IV The End of the Dark Age: the Community

V Euboean Society and Trade

VI The Orientalization Period

VII Colonization

VIII Warfare nd the New Morality

IX Tyranny

X Sparta and the Hoplite State

XI Athens and Social Justice

XII Life Styles and Arisocracy

XIII Life Styles and the Economy

XIV The Coming of the Persians

XV The Leadership of Greece: Sparta and Athens

XVI The Great Persian War