History and identity in the ancient Greek world -- 1. Of gods and heroes : Hesiod and Homer: the birth of the gods and the ages of man ; Homer and the beginnings of biography ; The Logographoi and the stirrings of historiography -- 2. The age of tyrants : Peisistratus (?c. 605-528) tyrannos of Athens ; Polycrates (?-522) tyrannos of Samos ; Sappho (post 630-c. 570) lyric poet ; Pythagoras (c. 570-c. 485) philosopher, mystic and mathematician ; Milo (c. 555-?) wrestler and general ; Hippias (?-490) tyrannos of Athens ; Cleisthenes (570-?507) democratic reformer ; Histiaeus (?-?494) tyranos of Miletus ; Miliades (c. 554-489) tyrannnos and general -- 3. Greece in peril : Cimon (c. 510-450) politician and general ; Themistocles (524-459) politician and general ; Leonidas (c. 540-480) Spartan king ; Gelon (?-478) tyrannos of Syracuse ; Hieron (?-467) tyrannos of Syracuse ; Pindar (c. 522-c. 442) lyric poet ; Aeschylus (525/4-456/5) tragic playwright -- 4. The age of Pericles : Pericles (495-429) statesman and general ; Herodotus (c. 484-?420s) historian ; Sophocles (497/6-405) tragic playwright and politician ; Empedocles (c. 495-?) philosopher and mystic ; Protagoras (490-420) philosopher ; Pheidias (c. 480-c. 430) sculptor ; Aspasia (c. 470-c. 400) intellectual --
5. World war : Alcibiades (450-404) politician and general ; Cleon (?-422) politician and general ; Thucydides (c. 455-c. 395) general and historian ; Aristophanes (c. 446-c. 386) comic playwright ; Euripides (c. 485-406) tragic playwright ; Zeuxis (?460-?) artist ; Gorgias (485-380) philosopher and rhetorician ; Socrates (?469-399) philosopher -- 6. Fallout : Xenophon (c. 430-c. 354) general, historian, lierary innovator ; Lysander (?-395) Spartan general ; Epaminondas (c. 418-362) Theban general ; Lysias (445-380) orator and speech-writer ; Demosthenes (384-322) orator and politician ; Plato (c. 427-348/7) philosopher ; Aristotle (385/4-322) philosopher -- 7. The age of the dynasts : Alexander III (356-323) king and conqueror ; Ptolemy I (367-283) general and dynast ; Demetrius of Phalerum (c. 347-c. 283) governor of Athens and scholar ; Menander (342-291) comic playwright ; Apelles (pre 360-?c. 295) artist ; Epicurus (341-270) philosopher -- 8. In the shadow of Rome : Pyrrhus of Epirus (319-272) king and general ; Apollonius of Rhodes (pre 270-?232) poet and scholar ; Archimedes (c. 287-212) mathematician and inventor ; Attalus I (269-197) king and general ; Philopoemen (253-183) statesman and general ; Polybius (200-118) politician and historian -- 9. Lives in a mirror -- Maps -- Glossary -- Timeline -- Who's who -- Further reading.
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