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Ancient Greece: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
This highly original introduction to ancient Greece uses the history of eleven major Greek cities to illuminate the most important and informative aspects of Greek culture. Cartledge highlights the role of such renowned cities as Athens (birthplace of democracy) and Sparta, but he also examines Argos, Thebes, Syracuse in Sicily, and Alexandria in Egypt, as well as lesser k...more
Paperback, 184 pages
Published
November 10th 2011
by Oxford University Press, USA
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Ancient Greece is one of the most fascinating and intriguing historical polities. The very notion of Greece as a single political and cultural entity is a relatively modern designation. The ancient Greeks had organized their life within a polis, a self-containing “city state,” of which there had been hundreds throughout the ancient history, spanning almost all of northern Mediterranean. So when we talk about ancient Greece what we really have in mind is the history of these poleis – their origin...more
This is the first (albeit of six I have read to date) VSIs that I actively disliked. Cartledge opted for an impossibly terrible writing style (far worse than his more accessible works) which included a plethora of excess, often needless, commas and consistently misused em dashes. This led to his too often (at least once per chapter, though the average was slightly above five) constructing sentences where the initial posit was never fully addressed and/or the conclusion of the sentence bore no re...more
Cartledge makes an admirable run at covering a thousand years of history in just a few pages. His focus on key themes and representative cities results in a nicely coherent introduction.
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Paul Anthony Cartledge is the 1st A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University, having previously held a personal chair in Greek History at Cambridge. He was educated at St Paul's School & New College, Oxford where he took his 1st degree & completed his doctoral thesis in Spartan archaeology in 1975 under Prof. Sir John Boardman. After a period at the University of War...more
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