A History of Greece, 1300 to 30 BC (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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A History of Greece: 1300¿30 BC, offers a comprehensive introduction to the foundational political history of Greece, from the late Mycenaean Age through to the death of Cleopatra VII, the last Hellenistic monarch of Egypt.

• Introduces textual and archaeological evidence used by historians to reconstruct historical events during Greece's Bronze, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods
• Reveals the political and social structure of the Greek world in the late Mycenaean period (thirteenth century BC) through analysis of the Linear B tablets, the oldest surviving records in Greek
• Features numerous references to original source materials, including various fragmentary papyri, inscriptions, coins, and other literary sources
• Provides extensive coverage of the Hellenistic period, and covers areas excluded from most Greek history texts, including the Greek West
• Features judicious use of illustrations throughout, and considers instructors' teaching needs by structuring the later sections to facilitate teaching a parallel course in Roman History
• Balances scholarship with a reader-friendly approach to create an accessible introduction to the political history of one of most remarkable ancient civilizations and sophisticated periods of world history