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Greek civilisation and character : the self-revelation of ancient Greek society

by: Toynbee, Arnold, 1889-1975, translator, writer of introduction

Publication date: 1924

Topics: Hellenism, Greek literature -- Translations into English, Civilization, Greek literature, Greece -- Civilization, Greece, Greece

Publisher: London & Toronto : J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. ; New York : E.P. Dutton & Co.

Collection: internetarchivebooks

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

xx, 236 pages ; 20 cm

A compilation of extracts from Greek authors

Includes index

Part I. - Civilisation -- The proselyte -- The piazza from inside -- The piazza from outside -- "The fools were right!" -- Sparta (480 B.C.) -- Athens (431 B.C.) -- Liberté - Égalité - Fraternité -- The class war: First phase -- Professionalism -- Sparta (399 B.C) -- Sparta (ca. 243-240 B.C.) -- Culture -- Solidarity -- Civilised warfare -- Seed on good ground -- Seed on stony ground -- Seed among thorns -- Depopulations -- The class war: Second phase -- Debasement -- Athens (ca. A.D. 52-3) -- Cimmerian darkness -- The conflict of civilisations -- The renegade -- Part II. - Character -- Section I. - Social psychology -- Democracy -- "Peace-talk" -- "Moral" -- "The sea! The sea!" -- Liberation -- Public opinion -- In the theatre at Asculum -- Fraternisation -- In the theatre at Ephesus -- Section II. - Conflicts of will -- Aristagoras, Cleomenes I., and Gorgo -- The war debate at Sparta (432 B.C.) -- Athens and Mitylene (427 B.C.) -- Athens and Melos (416 B.C.) -- The peace-debate at Naupactus (217 B.C.)

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