Author(s): Francisco Javier Gómez Espelosín

Publisher: Ediciones AKAL

Publication Date: 2011-05-06

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 256

Language: es

The history of ancient Greece is characterized by its enormous diversity, despite the apparent supremacy of Athens, which shines with its own light and seems to overshadow the rest of the Greek world. Alongside the political form of the polis, there existed another type of organization, the ethnos, of a tribal nature, in which numerous Greek states were organized. The history of Greece is not limited to classical Athens and the periods immediately before and after. The Greek world is rooted in the pre-Hellenic substrate depicted in the Aegean civilizations and remains fully alive after Alexander the Great's conquest and during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, despite the abrupt change in the political landscape. This spatial and chronological diversity is highlighted in this work, which focuses on the different regions of the Greek world from Asia Minor to Sicily and southern Italy, covering a time span from the Cretan civilization to the Roman occupation. Fully adapted to current curricula, this manual offers an engaging and concise reading of the history of the ancient Greek world, accompanied by illustrations, original texts, and highly useful explanatory maps.