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Title: Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History by Sarah B. Pomeroy, Stanley M. Burstein, Walter Donlan, Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, Walter Dolan ISBN: 0-19-509742-4 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I can't put down enough praise.
Comment: Luckily, this was the first book I ever read about Ancient Greece and I feel very fortuneate about it. Book is very comprehensive in many ways, and it is both extremely entertaining as well as informative. There is just about everything you need to know. I had fragments of information that I have gathered through out my life and this book just filled the missing gap. This book did not just lay facts, but had various parables and also had interesting references from many other sources. It want into details of many lives and I learned about Alexander the Great, Plato, about Sparta and contrasting Athens and more. This book is quite long but never boring, and you can read it like any other fiction books. Some topics will interest you more and will lead you to other books. In my case I have bought Plutarch's lives.
Rating: 2
Summary: is history science?
Comment: I found the book poor when it comes to the critical evaluation
of modern archaeological findings. I do not recommend it.
Rating: 3
Summary: maybe best afordable text, but marred by committee-speak
Comment: I've used this text in my Greek Civilization course and I find that it has a wide range of material and reflects the latest trends in scholarship. For some courses I prefer Demand's History of Ancient Greece because it is more concise and better written--the short chapters give me more freedom to assign original Greek texts. But the price for that small text is outrageous!
The reason I'm provoked to write this review is I'm looking over the reading I assigned my students for today. See Pomeroy p. 246, the first paragraph on the Peloponnesian War, beginning "Avoiding war was particularly important when the Greeks has such precious achievements to protect in so many areas." The paragraph goes downhill from there. A horrible, scattered introduction which does nothing to convey why this central episode of Greek history was so important to the Greeks and retains its importance today. On many occasions the blah prose of this text renders the most interesting moments of Greek history dull and soporific.
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Title: History of the Peloponnesian War (Penguin Classics) by Thucydides, Rex Warner, M. I. Finley ISBN: 0140440399 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: September, 1954 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece by Robert Morkot ISBN: 0140513353 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Archaic and Classical Greece : A Selection of Ancient Sources in Translation by Michael H. Crawford, David Whitehead ISBN: 0521296382 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 13 January, 1983 List Price(USD): $44.00 |
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Title: The Portable Greek Historians: The Essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius (Viking Portable Library (Paper)) by Moses I. Finley ISBN: 014015065X Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: September, 1977 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Greek Polis (Readings in Western Civilization, Vol 1) by Arthur W.H. Adkins, Peter White, John W. Boyer, Authur W. H. Adkins ISBN: 0226069354 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: May, 1986 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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