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The Cambridge ancient history, edited by D. M. Lewis, John Boardman, Simon Hornblower, M. Ostwald, Volume 6

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The Cambridge ancient history

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edited by D. M. Lewis, John Boardman, Simon Hornblower, M. Ostwald

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Volume VI of the new edition of The Cambridge Ancient History begins with Sparta attempting to consolidate its leadership of mainland Greece and ends with the death of Alexander the Great after he had conquered the Persian Empire and marched far into India. It is correspondingly wide-ranging in its treatment of the politics and economy, not only of old Greece, but of the Near East and the western Mediterranean. The century also saw the continued development of Classical Greek art and the moulding of Greek prose as an uniquely flexible means of expression. The formation of the great philosophical schools assured to Athens in her political decline a long future as a cultural centre, and established patterns of thought which dominated western civilization for two thousand years--, Provided by Publisher

Sources and their uses by Simon Hornblower -- Sparta as victor by D. M. Lewis -- Persia by Simon Hornblower -- The Corinthian War by Robin Seager -- Sicily, 413-368 B.C. by D. M. Lewis -- The King's Peace and the Second Athenian Confederacy by Robin Seager -- Thebes in the 360s B.C. by J. Roy -- Regional surveys I: Persian lands and neighbours -- Regional surveys II: the West and North -- Society and economy by M. M. Austin -- The polis and the alternatives by P. J. Rhodes -- Greek culture and science -- Dion and Timoleon by H. D. Westlake -- Macedon and north-west Greece by J. R. Ellis -- Macedonian hegemony created by J. R. Ellis -- Alexander the Great Part 1: The events of the reign by A. B. Bosworth -- Alexander the Great Part 2: Greece and the conquered territories by A. B. Bosworth -- Epilogue by Simon Hornblower