Η ελληνική αρχαιότητα: πόλεμος - πολιτική - πολιτισμός [Greek antiquity: War - politics - culture]

The book aims to present Ancient Greek history from the 8th century BC to the 4th century AD in a manner that is stimulating and useful for both teachers and students of secondary education. The authors saw the triptych war-politics-culture as the most fitting means to introduce readers to this particular historical period - war and politics as concepts of immense ideological and practical impact in Greek antiquity, and culture as the set of beliefs with which contemporaries were imbued and as the totality of achievements that marked the life of descendants.

The narrative method selected is that of continuous narrative, which is only interrupted in its joints, while the book’s illustration is confined to the necessary maps. As the series’ editor notes, “the style of the book could be described as Herodotean, combining learning via reading with the pleasures of reading itself”.

In the individual chapters and sub-chapters of the book, those military, political and cultural events of each period (Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Greco-Roman) are examined that the two authors consider illustrative so that a vivid picture of each period can be presented in both its positive and negative aspects. The book also contains an Epilogue, a chronological table of events and an index.