The Ancient Greeks: Between One and Many

A brilliant, up-to-date account by a leading scholar of all of ancient Greek history (the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods), suitable for history buffs and university students, and enlivened by a strong thesis about the disunity of the Greeks.

 

Throughout their history they recognized and celebrated their cultural similarities, but people identified with and felt loyalty towards their individual city-states, and regularly went to war with their neighbours even while recognizing this underlying unity.

 

Events gradually pushed them towards a greater degree of political unification, culminating in their treatment by the Romans as a single race.