This book has been written with three principal objects in mind. First, it aims to provide for the ever-increasing number of ‘travellers in antique lands’ a survey which, for those interested in the Greek remains of the western Mediterranean, will offer a fuller yet convenient background to what they find on the ancient sites. Its second aim is to provide the classical student with a short conspectus of the history and attainments of the western Greeks which may serve as a basis for closer study of particular details: and last, though by no means least, it seeks to break new ground in isolating the distinctive features of western Hellas and suggesting some assessment of their relationship to Hellenism as a whole.
Author(s): Arthur Geoffrey Woodhead
Series: Ancient Peoples and Places
Edition: 1
Publisher: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers
Year: 1962
Language: English
Commentary: e-ink optimized
Pages: 243
City: New York
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Cover
Half Title
Imprint
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Chronological Table
I ONE WORLD
II FACT AND FICTION BEFORE THE GREEK SETTLEMENTS
Fact
Fiction
III COLONISATION AND SETTLEMENT
Colonisation and tbe Greeks
Tbe Earliest Colonies
Tbe Sicilian Colonies
The Italian Colonies
The Farthest West
Dates in Early Greek History
IV THE STORY OF THE WESTERN GREEKS
Sicily in the Sixth Century
The Rise of Syracuse
Dionysius I of Syracuse
The Liberators
Agathocles and Pyrrbus
The Indian Summer of Syracuse
The Roman Republic
V THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE WESTERN GREEKS
Politics and the City-State
Town-Planning
Architecture in the West
Warfare and Fortifications
Exploration in the West
Western Poetry and Drama
The Western Historians
Western Painting
Sculpture and Related Arts
Philosophy, Science and Rhetoric
VI ENVOI
GLOSSARY
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
THE PLATES (48 pp.)
NOTES ON THE PLATES
INDEX
