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Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History Sarah B. Pomeroy, Stanley M. Burstein, Walter Donlan, Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, David Tandy
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Mar 22, 2012 - In Ancient Greece, for starters, women could not vote, own property, divorce their husbands or sue (Kluth). Apr 1, 2014 - The ancient Greeks were never politically unified before the rise of Rome, yet they succeeded in spreading and maintaining a common culture around the Mediterranean sea 'like frogs around a pond' (Plato Phaedo 109b). They had very limited Pomeroy, Sarah B. Amelia Brown is Lecturer in Greek History and Language within the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics at The University of Queensland. Mar 13, 2013 - His innovative and sometimes rough comedy could also hide more sophisticated digs at the political elite and deal with social issues such as cultural change and the role of women in society. Indeed, the plays of Aristophanes are not only a record of Greek theatre but also provide an invaluable insight into many of the political and social aspects of ancient Greece, from the practicalities of jury service to details of religious rituals in major festivals. Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History. 7 days ago - However, in climate fiction applying the imaginary of the social breakdown, it is not a punishing God that set humanity's progress into reverse gear by dividing it up into antagonistic clans: it is the technological arrogance of humanity itself, which anthropogenic global warming sets The imaginary has a cultural history that goes back to ancient Greece and the idea that the Gods of the Olympus secretly orchestrated and interfered in the lives of ordinary human beings. Modern historians struggle to explain how the great distances and without political bonds. Dec 7, 2008 - Ancient Greece: A Political, Social And Cultural History Still, it does give an understandable, if brief, overview of Greek history from the neolithic down through the Hellenic periods, with each era given it's own chapter. A good book offering a somewhat concise history of ancient greece is "Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History" second edition by Sarah B.