Joseph Roisman 
Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander 
The Evidence

With fresh, new translations and extensive introductions and
annotations, this sourcebook provides an inclusive and integrated
view of Greek history, from Homer to Alexander the Great.

* New translations of original sources are contextualized by
insightful introductions and annotations

* Includes a range of literary, artistic and material evidence
from the Homeric, Archaic and Classical Ages

* Focuses on important developments as well as specific themes to
create an integrated perspective on the period

* Links the political and social history of the Greeks to their
intellectual accomplishments

* Includes an up-to-date bibliography of seminal scholarship

* An accompanying website offers additional evidence and
explanations, as well as links to useful online resources

Table of Content

List of Illustrations.

List of Maps.

Preface.

Abbreviations.

Glossary.

Greek Weights, Measures, Coins and the Athenian Calendar.

Timeline.

Introduction: The Evidence for Greek History and Culture.

1. The World of Homer.

2. The World of Hesiod.

3. The Early Greek Polis (City-State), Ethnos and Federal
States.

4. Settlements Across the Sea: Greek
‘Colonization’.

5. Aristocratic Power and Attitudes.

6. Archaic Tyranny.

7. Archaic and Classical Sparta.

8. Hoplites and Their Values.

9. Archaic Athens From Draco to Solon.

10. Tyranny in Athens.

11. Cleisthenes and Athenian Democracy (508/7).

12. Archaic Society and Culture: Gender, Sexuality, Banquet and
Competition.

13. Archaic Law.

14. Archaic Greek Religion.

15. The Ionian Revolt: Persians and Greeks.

16. The Battle of Marathon (490).

17. The Persian War (480-79).

18. The Athenian Empire.

19. Empowering Athenian Democracy (462/1-451/0).

20. War and Peace in Greece (461/0-437/6).

21. The Administration of the Empire and the Athenian Tribute
Quota Lists.

22. The City of Athens.

23. The Sophists, Athenian Democracy and Its Critics.

24. The Causes of the Peloponnesian War and the Athenian and
Spartan Strategies.

25. The Peloponnesian War: The Archidamian War (431-21).

26. Finances and Allies During the Archidamian War.

27. The Uneasy Peace and the Sicilian Expedition (421-413).

28. The Peloponnesian War: the Decelean War (413-404).

29. The Rule of the Thirty, The Athenian Amnesty and
Socrates’ Trial.

30. Sparta After The Peloponnesian War: Politics, Wealth and
Demography.

31. The Spartan Hegemony, the Corinthian War and the Peace of
Antalcidas (404/3-388/7).

32. From the Peace of Antalcidas (387) to the Battle of Leuctra
and Its Aftermath (371).

33. Jason of Pherae (? – 370).

34. Athenian Imperialism and Theban Hegemony.

35. Running the Athenian Polis: Politics, Finances, Grain and
Trade in the Fourth Century.

36. Metics (Resident Aliens), Slaves and Barbarians.

37. Masculine and Feminine Gender in Classical Athens.

38. Philip II of Macedonia (359-336).

39. Alexander the Great (336-323).

Bibliography.

Index of Ancient Sources.

General Index.

About the author

Joseph Roisman is Professor of Classics at Colby College. He
has authored and edited several books, among them Brill’s
Companion to Alexander the Great (2003) and The Rhetoric
of Manhood: Masculinity in the Attic Orators (2005).

J.C. Yardley is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the
University of Ottawa. He has published extensively on Greek and
Roman history and sources. His books include Alexander the
Great: Historical Sources in Translation (ed. with Waldemar
Heckel, Blackwell, 2004) and many translations of key texts, from
Tacitus and Justin to Livy and Quintus Curtius Rufus.