Ancient Greece

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Greenhaven Publishing LLC, Mar 13, 2009 - Young Adult Nonfiction - 384 pages
This volume presents compelling entries that provide definitions of important terms, biographies of central figures, and brief narratives of pivotal events that transformed ancient Greece. Students will find quick and easily accessible answers to the difficult questions that arise while researching events, personalities, and issues of Greece's past. A comprehensive bibliography offers further avenues for research.
 

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Contents

Preface
17
A
19
Achilles
20
Admetus
21
Aegeus
22
aegis
23
Aeschylus
24
Aesop
25
Ionian Sea
187
Iphigenia at Aulis
188
Isis
189
Isthmian Games
190
Ithaca
191
J
192
Jews
193
K
194

afterlife
26
Agathon
27
Agis IV
28
Akroteri
29
Alcestis
30
Alcmaeonids
31
Alcman
32
Alexandria
34
Alexandrian and other Hellenistic Greek literature
35
alphabet
36
Amphictyonic Council
37
Anatolia
38
Anaxagoras
39
Andromache
40
Antigonus I
41
Antigonus II Gonatas
42
Antiochus III
43
Aphrodite
44
Apollodorus of Athens
45
aqueducts
47
Archimedes
48
architectural orders
49
archon
50
arete
51
Argonauts
53
Aristarchus of Samos
54
Aristophanes
55
Arrian
57
Arsinoë
58
Asclepius
59
Aspasia
60
astronomy
61
Athena
62
Athens
63
athletics
65
Athos Mt
66
Atlantis
67
Atreus
68
B
70
banking
71
Battle of Aegospotami 405 BC
72
Battle of Coronea 447 BC
73
Battle of Gaugamela 331 BC
74
Battle of Hydapses River 326 BC
75
Battle of Magnesia 190 BC
76
Battle of Mycale 479 BC
77
Battle of Potidaea 432 BC
78
Battle of Salamis 480 BC
79
Battle of Thermopylae 191 BC
80
Birds
81
Boreas
82
burial customs
84
Byzantium
85
C
86
Calypso
87
caryatid
88
Castor and Polydeuces
89
centaurs
90
Chaos
91
Charon
92
Children of Heracles
93
Chimaera
94
Circe
95
citystate
96
Cleomenes
97
clothing
98
Clouds
99
Cnidus
100
Conon
101
Constitution of the Athenians Old Oligarch
102
Corinth Isthmus of
103
Crete
104
Critias
105
Cronos
106
Cyclades
107
Cynics
108
Cyrus the Younger
109
D
110
Darius I
111
Delos
112
Delphic Oracle
113
Demeter
114
Demetrius of Phalerum
115
demos
116
Description of Greece
117
Diogenes of Sinope
118
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
119
Dioscuri
120
divination
121
Dodona
122
Doric order
123
E
124
Egypt
125
ekklesia
126
Electra
127
Elements
128
Elis
129
Epaminondas
130
Ephesus
131
Ephialtes
132
Epic Cycle
133
Epicureanism
134
Epidaurus
135
Erechtheum
136
Erechtheus
137
Eros
138
Euboea
139
Eumenes
140
Euphorion
141
Europa
142
F
143
farming
144
Fates
145
Four Hundred the
146
freedmen
147
Furies
148
G
149
gambling
150
Ganymede
151
Geography
152
Golden Fleece
153
government
154
Graces
155
Greece geography of
158
Greek language
163
grooming
164
gymnasia
165
H
166
heating and lighting
167
Helen
168
Helios
169
Hellespont
170
Heracles
171
Heraclitus
172
Herodas
173
Hesiod
174
Hiero I
175
Hippocrates of Cos
176
Homeric Hymns
178
hoplite
179
hunting
180
I
182
incubation
184
inhumation
185
Ion playwright
186
koine
195
L
196
laws and justice
197
Lemnos
199
Lesbos
200
Leucippus
201
Library of History
202
Locris
203
Lyceum
204
lyre
205
Lysias
206
Lysimachus
207
M
208
Madness of Heracles
209
Magna Graecia
210
Massalia
212
Medea
213
Megara
214
Menander
215
Metamorphoses
216
Metaphysics
217
Miletus
218
Mimnermus
219
mining
220
Minos
221
Moralia
222
music and dance
223
Mycenae
224
Mycenaeans
225
Myron
226
N
228
Nestor
229
Nicomachus
230
Nyx
231
O
232
Odyssey
233
Oeconomicus
234
Oedipus at Colonus
235
Old Comedy
236
Olympia
237
Olympians
238
Olynthus
239
oracles
240
Orpheus
241
ostracism
242
P
243
palaestrae
244
Panathenaea
245
pankration
246
Parmenio
247
Patroclus
249
Peace
250
Peloponnesian War
251
Peloponnesian War The
254
Peloponnesus
255
pentathlon
256
Periander
257
Persephone
259
Persians The
260
pets
261
Phidias
262
Philip V
263
Philoctetes
264
Philoctetes play
265
Phocaea
266
Phoenicia
267
Phrynichus
268
Pisistratus
269
Plataea
270
Plotinus
272
Pnyx Hill
273
polemarch
275
Politics
276
Polycrates
277
Poseidon
278
pottery
279
Praxiteles
281
preSocratics
282
Prometheus
283
Protagoras dialogue
284
Ptolemy I Soter
285
Ptolemy II Philadelphus
286
Pyrrhus
287
Pytheas
288
Q
289
R
290
Republic The
292
rhapsodia
293
Rhodes
294
Roman Period
295
S
297
sanctuary
298
satyrs
299
sculpture
301
Scythia
302
Seleucid Empire
304
Semonides
305
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
306
Sisyphus
307
Socrates
309
Solon
310
Sophocles
311
Sphinx
312
stade
313
Strato
314
Sybaris
315
Symposium dialogue
316
T
318
Tegea
319
Thales
320
Theater of Dionysus
323
Themistocles
324
Theocritus
325
Thera
326
Thessaly
327
Thucydides
328
Thurii
329
Timoleon
330
trade
331
tribes
332
Trojan War
333
tyrants
334
Tyre
335
U
336
Uranus
337
V
338
W
339
weapons and warfare land
340
weapons and warfare naval
343
weapons and warfare siege
344
weights and measures
346
women
347
Women at the Assembly
350
Works and Days
351
X
353
xenos
354
Xerxes
355
Z
356
Chronology
359
For Further Research
363
Index
373
About the Author
380
About the Consulting Editor
381
Back Cover
383
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Common terms and phrases

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About the author (2009)

Robert B. Kebric is a professor of Ancient Greek and Roman History at the University of Louisville. Kebric uses every necessary source to draw together the complete history of culture and society in his books, Greek People and Roman People.

Bibliographic information

TitleAncient Greece
The Greenhaven Encyclopedia Of
AuthorDon Nardo
ContributorRobert B. Kebric
PublisherGreenhaven Publishing LLC, 2009
ISBN0737746246, 9780737746242
Length384 pages
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