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ANCIENT
GREECE
A HISTORY IN ELEVEN
CITIES
PAUL CARTLEDGE
1
Great Clarendon Street, Oxford
ox
2
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Cartledge, Paul.
Ancient Greece / Paul Cartledge.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
978–0–19–923338–0
(hardback : acid-free paper)
1.
Greece—Civilization–To
146
B.C.
2.
Byzantine Empire—Civilization.
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2009
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PREFACE
I
t is very hard, in a short book, to do anything like full
justice to an ‘Ancient Greece’ that was a conglom-
erated civilization or culture of roughly
1,000
separate
and often very distinct political entities at any one
moment in ancient time, and that stretched at the limit
from southern Spain to the Black Sea shore of mod-
ern Georgia. (The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge
in
2008
hosted an exhibition devoted to splendidly
sophisticated, mainly Greek-made finds from graves in
Vani, Georgia, associated with an in-house exhibition
of coins from the Black Sea region generally.)
A Who’s Who, a Glossary, and a Timeline have
been included to enhance ease of quick reference,
together with notes on the spelling of Greek words
and names, and on Greek measures of money and dis-
tance. But I should also like to draw readers’ attention
to
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece.
Like this book, the
CIHAG
combines thematic with
chronological approaches, and social, economic, reli-
gious, and cultural with political, military, and diplo-
matic history, but in a format which, unlike the present
volume, is very definitely not suitable for pulling out of
a pocket to read on the train or bus or plane. I hope
that it may be useful as a companion to readers of this
book, as it has been to me in the writing of it.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I
should like to thank again my collaborators on
The
Cambridge History of Ancient Greece:
Sue Alcock
(now of Brown University), Nick Fisher (University of
Wales, Cardiff), Marilyn Katz (Wesleyan University),
Edith Hall (now Royal Holloway University of Lon-
don), Karim Arafat (King’s College London), Cather-
ine Morgan (now Director of the British School at
Athens), Lesley Dean-Jones (University of Texas at
Austin), and Richard Buxton (Bristol University); and
the other colleagues and friends, too, on the continent
of Europe (especially in Greece), in Africa, in America
North and South, in Australasia, and in Japan, who
have in some way or other contributed to the text that
follows. There are too many to name them all indi-
vidually, but two do require special mention: Robert
Garland (Colgate University) and Polly Low (Univer-
sity of Manchester), who both at extremely short notice
read and commented expertly on an entire near-final
draft. And I must not forget the Press’s ‘anonymous
reader’, who saved me from considerable embarrass-
ment. Were it not for their kindness and collegiality,
this book would have been even more imperfect than
it is. I count myself exceedingly fortunate, too, to be
writing at a time when the modern historiography of
ancient Greece is experiencing something of a boom,

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