Hellenic History

>>2429857
go to youtube

type in Donald Kagan Greece Lectures

watch them

>>2429857
Hey find out your history professors political leanings bud before you jump into Greece

That will tell you what to focus on

>>2429878
He's a conservative, post-soviet style.

>>2429871
I'm a couple of minutes in, and he's saying that the Greeks did not have monarchs, and that all Poleis were republics. I'm fairly sure that's incorrect. He seems entirely legitimate, but this has me worried.

>>2429951
ehh kagan is in equal measure respected and controversial because of his neoconservative views and his consequent support for war in Iraq and spreading democracy around the world. So his later works have been criticized for basically projecting these views onto the ancient greek past

>>2430613
Right, I'll take that into consideration.

>>2430613
here's annotated bilbiographies on:
the polis
http://pastebin.com/9Pg29qJj
greek federal states
http://pastebin.com/LyfZSp0B
greek history: hellenistic
http://pastebin.com/JQKwB1GT
greek history: archaic to classical age
http://pastebin.com/NuUZS3DH
greek military
http://pastebin.com/QkgHCewz

Jeremy McInerney is a pro on Greece

>>2429871
Kagan is not a scholar of antiquity. I've never been comfortable with people recommending his books.

>>2429857
Make sure you read your Xenophon and Aristophanes too.

>>2430911
>Kagan is not a scholar of antiquity.
isn't he though? he wrote a trilogy on the peloponnesian war and was respected for the most part

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>>2431662
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