What's a good book focusing on the history of Ancient Greece? Preferably an eBook.
Pomeroy is OK but there is a longer version just called "Ancient Greece." It's pirateable. It's the textbook used alongside Kagan's Yale course:
http://oyc.yale.edu/classics/clcv-205
Bury + Meiggs is nice. Grote rhymes with scrote.
thucydides
or xenophon
>>7404699
do you know where i can find the longer version? i looked on bookz but there's nothing
>>7404720
Libgen doesn't seem to have it either
Maybe I'm mistaken and Brief History is just the title for the 2004 edition. I may be mistaking it for a similar Roman history set I had to use for the same class.
Just use Brief History and go along with Kagan's course it's bretty good also he's a weird neocon
>>7404699
That one seems to be out of print in the UK unfortunately...and the used copies are ridiculously expensive.
>>7404695
here's something you might like
Anyone read Pausanias? I've been reading Polybius and Pausanias' history/tour of Greece has been mentioned once or twice and sounds like it could be cool.
>>7404720
I couldn't find the Ancient Greece verison anywhere so I just went and bought it. It's worth the price.
>>7405705
>probably just a name change
>bought it
NO
JUST USE THE BRIEF HISTORY ONE YOU FUCKFACE
LOOK YOU DON'T EVEN NEED IT
http://www.scribd.com/doc/209267439/Sarah-B-Pomeroy-Ancient-Greece#scribd
www.lsrhs.net/departments/history/Hanoverc/Ancient/Greece/brief-history-of-ancient-greece-politics-society-and-culture.pdf
>>7405710
It's not just a name change, the brief version doesn't go as nearly in-depth, hence its title.
Warfare and Agriculture in Ancient Greece by Victor Davis Hanson
Landmark Herodotus is an invaluable resource.
>>7405718
If I just want an introduction to start reading philosophy, is the Brief edition good enough?
>>7405747
In combination with other Greek works, yes.
>>7405751
I plan to read Apollodorus's Bibliotheca Mithologica and Hamilton's Mythology before going into Homer and Hesiod, then the playwrights and finally the Pre-Socratics. Is that a good plan?
I also have Werner Jaeger's Paideia. Should I read that before or after I start with the Greeks proper?
