希腊的形成

Routledge 的《古代世界史》系列作品。

覆盖早期希腊从青铜时代末期到古典时代开端的关键阶段。

首版出版1996，本版本为2009版本

关于可读性

叙事+专题讨论，会在关键处解释史料为何可靠/不可靠，读者能跟上推理链条。

可读性不错。

目录结构

前置部分

• List of figures / List of tables / List of texts
• Preface
• Preface to the second edition
• List of abbreviations

正文

1. The traditions of history
   • What is Polykrates to me? The necessity of archaic Greek history
   • History and the traditions of prehistory
   • The case of Cyrene
   • Using the archaeology
   • Our world under construction
2. Setting the stage
   • The natural environment
   • Living off the land
   • Human constraints
3. The problem of beginnings
   • A slate rubbed clean? The onset of the Dark Age
   • Migration, invasion, and decline: explaining the void
   • The eastern Mediterranean world
   • Getting organised
4. Forming communities: The Eighth Century BC
   • Growing people
   • The changing world of the dead
   • The changing world of the gods
   • The world outside
   • The eighth-century view of the world
   • From communities to poleis?
5. The world of Hesiod and Homer
   • The tradition of oral poetry
   • Hesiod’s world
   • The world of the Iliad and Odyssey
   • Hesiod, Homer, and history
6. Reforming communities: The Seventh Century
   • An artistic revolution
   • A world at war
   • Sparta
   • Law, constitutions, and extra-constitutional rule
   • Settlements and mobility
   • A divine revolution
7. The Greek World in 600 BC
   • Athens
   • Women
   • New cities
8. Inter-relating cities: the short Sixth Century (600–520 BC)
   • Competing in a panhellenic world
   • Monumentalising the city
   • Feud and faction beyond the history of the city
   • Networking cities
9. The transformation of archaic Greece 520–479 BC
   • Democracy
   • Philosophy
   • Persia

收尾部分

• Epilogue
• Bibliographical notes
• Index