Histoires Grecques

Snapshots from Antiquity

Maurice Sartre

Translated by Catherine Porter

    • Maps
    • Preface
    1. Theseus Unites Attica’s Inhabitants, or the Origins of the City-State
    2. The Theraeans Embark for Cyrene, or How to Found a Colony: A National Legend
    3. Lydian Coins, or the Origins of Money
    4. Graffi ti on Ramses II’s Leg, or Greek Mercenaries and Merchants in Pharaonic Egypt
    5. Phalaris’s Bull, or One Aspect of the Crisis: Tyranny
    6. “You Will Destroy a Great Empire!” or Oracles and Soothsayers
    7. “And Cleisthenes Had the People Join His Hetaireia” or the Bases of Athenian Democracy
    8. Histiaeus of Miletus and the Tattooed Slave, or Greeks and Persians in Asia Minor ca. 550–ca. 490
    9. An Ostracizing Potsherd, or the Progress of Democracy after the Greco-Persian Wars
    10. Complaints of a Bastard, or Pericles’ Law on Citizenship
    11. Hippolytus’s Prayer to Zeus, or Women in the City-State
    12. The Story of a Broken Sigma, or Athenian Imperialism
    13. Two Thousand Helots Gone! or Slaves in the City-State
    14. Naked and Unarmed in the Dark, or Training and Initiation of Spartan Youth
    15. Nicocles of Salamis in Cyprus, or Foreigners in the City-State
    16. Pasion Bequeaths His Wife, or from Slavery to Freedom
    17. An Arabian Owl, or Greek Trade and Culture in the Near and Middle East before Alexander
    18. The Susa Weddings, or Alexander, Iran, and the Greeks
    19. A Hymn for Demetrios Poliorcetes, or New Kings, New Gods
    20. In Io’s Footsteps, or Greek Settlement in Alexander’s Empire
    21. Long Live Poverty! or Revolutions in Sparta in the Third Century
    22. A Capital on the Banks of the Amu Darya, or the Greeks in Bactria and India
    23. Gymnasium: Keep Out! or Education and Citizenship in the Hellenistic World
    24. A Wild Ass for the King, or Greeks, Jews, and Hellenism in the Transjordan
    25. An Epigram from Sidon, or Hellenism in Syria in the Third and Second Centuries b.c.e.
    26. The Promotion of Toriaion, or How to Become a City-State
    27. Steles of Mercenaries from Sidon, or the Army and the War in the Hellenistic World
    28. Jason the Impious, or Hellenism in Jerusalem
    29. Amphora Stamps from Rhodes and Elsewhere, or Exchanges in the Mediterranean Region and Beyond, Third to First Centuries b.c.e.
    30. Let Us Pray for Archippe’s Recovery! or Women and Euergetism
    31. “Kill Them All,” or the Greeks, Rome, and Mithridates VI Eupator
    32. Prizes for an Athlete from Miletus, or Competition and Greek Culture
    33. Epaminondas Offers a Banquet, or Civic Ruin and Philanthropy in Greece in the First Century c.e.
    34. “The Sun and the Stars,” or Rome, the Client Princes, and the Provinces in the Eastern Mediterranean
    35. Pagan Martyrs in Alexandria, or Greeks and Jews in Alexandria in the First Century c.e.
    36. “Let Them Be Free,” or Nero and Greek Freedom
    37. Eating Roots in Aspendos, or Grain Crises and Speculation in Asia Minor in the First Century
    38. The Child in the Cauldron, or Indigenous Gods, Greek Gods in the Near East
    39. Farmers in Flight (163 c.e.), or Agriculture and Rural Life in Greco-Roman Egypt
    40. Urinating in Front of Aphrodite, or Jews and Greeks Six Centuries Later
    41. Of the Proper Use of Hellenic Letters, or How to Be Christian and Cultivated
    42. The Death of Hypatia, or Remaining Pagan in a Christian World
    • Afterword
    • Notes
    • Glossary
    • Index
  • Cover: Histoires Grecques

Maurice Sartre is Professor of History, University of Tours and the Institut Universitaire de France.