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Ancient Greece: A Very Short Introduction

by Paul Cartledge

This compact and concise introduction to Ancient Greece makes room for itself in a crowded marketplace with its wide focus and unusual structure. Getting away from the stereotypical concentration on Classical Athens, Cartledge instead illuminates different regions of Greece, by describing the history, topography and culture of eleven Greek cities. The cities are chosen so that they can also be used to present the main chronological periods of Greek history through the time of their greatest flourishing and power. All in all this is a fine, although obviously episodic way of looking at Greek history, and gives a good flavour both of diversity and continuity through the Greek world. The cities covered are: Cnossos, Mycenae, Argos, Miletus, Massalia, Sparta, Athens, Syracuse, Thebes, Alexandria and Byzantion. Published in hardback as Ancient Greece: A History in 11 Cities. 261p b/w pls and illus (Oxford UP 2009, Pb 2011)

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