The Greek World 479-323 BC (Routledge History of the Ancient...

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 400 pages
• Published by: Routledge
• Edition: 3rd Edition June 28, 2002
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0415163269
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0415163262
• Book Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
• Weighs: 1.8 pounds

Product Review
'To write a standard history which contains the essential material and yet is interesting and says things which have not been said before is one of the hardest tasks. Hornblower has performed it excellently.' - Times Literary Supplement

'Packed with worthwhile ideas and impressive erudition' - Classical Review

'An undergraduate textbook which neither the professional ancient historian can afford to ignore nor the interested non specialist fail to read with profit and pleasure' - History Today

'This fully revised version is a welcome addition to Routledge's History of the Ancient World.' - Contemporary Review

'The first edition became an essential text for students of the period, and this is a welcome new edition, which is more than simply a revision of the original.' - JACT Review

'Hornblower's excellence as historian, and his wide and responsible use of sources, together with attractive packaging, reestablishes tehe book's position as a benchmark for historians It is packed to the brim with an abundance of erudite observations.' - Scholia Reviews

Reader Reviews
This review is from: The Greek World 479-323 BC (Routledge History of the Ancient World) (Paperback) I am not an historian nor student of history, but just an aficionado. As such I got a big fan of the Routledge History of the Ancient World Series. This volume covers the period of classical Greece, more or less from the time when democracy had been already firmly established in Athens up to the life of Alexander the Great. The book has some very strong points, for instance by describing Greece in all its heterogeneity of places and political systems. It gives a very good analysis of the way wars (such as the famous Peloponesian described by Thukydides) came about and what their consequences were. What to my feeling is covered to little is the cultural aspect. In a previous part of the series, on archaic Greece (Greece in the Making) cultural aspects form a more integral part while in the present volume they appear more or less en passant. Yet it is the time of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle that is covered. May be these fellows were politically not very important, but still. However, this critique should not be taken as a suggestion to change the book, bnut rather to add a second volume on the classical Greek world covering Art, Philosophy and Science. Comment | | (Report this)